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And now, secure with their corporate sponsors and honorary square jaws, they, in turn, were sneering at a new breed of outsider arrivistes: nerds!

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

Rosenthal: "Almost everybody on the paper and all the journalists outside were sneering."

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon the critics were sneering at the shuttle as "America's Space Lemon."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, on the heels of the defense-treaty debate, the avant-garde of Nigeria's young intellectuals were sneering at Abubakar's open admiration and affection for Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Roger is looking at me again with an odd smile—not disagreeable in any way—not at all hold-cheap, or as if he were sneering at me for a simpleton, but merely odd.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda