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Sneer meaning
To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn. | To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
Example sentences (20)
Leaning into that enigmatic strength and clearly fired up by a promise to fly the flag of her Barbadian roots, a red-garbed Rihanna and her white-hooded dancers literally levitated in the Glendale, AZ, stadium with a sneer and a wink.
Whereas he once championed animal rights and the abolishment of capitalism, now he's got the Tory sneer down pat.
As the golf world gets ready to either watch or sneer at the competition, introduces you to the five newest players.
He’d just tail back a little in his hole and sneer with benign contempt.
If Noem ever goes anywhere to a political or social event, the rest of her life she will be met with a laugh or sneer as a joke.
Whenever I feel the urge to sneer or snipe at a grant-funded project, I remind myself that’s a good thing.
During that historic congressional hearing, Republicans scoffed at reparations the way a customer might sneer after being charged twice for the same meal.
Indeed, Irons plays the part with both a snarl and a sneer.
It’s all in the sneer.
Many wing lovers sneer at the boneless variety, which is usually made by deep-frying slices of chicken breast and has become at many restaurants over the last two decades.
And it exposes dismal lack of insight into the issues confronted by this couple and thousands more like them — sometimes shared by supposed “experts” who sneer at middle-class families and dismiss their needs.
I suppose we shouldn’t sneer, because at least this is a start, and zero is better than nothing.
It's not enough to sneer at unemployed or homeless people but that now extends to bar staff, teachers and conbeni workers.
It takes a lot to sneer at a superhero whose earnestness is arguably as much of a superpower as the proportional strength and speed of a radioactive spider is, but the feeling has grown nonetheless thanks to the studio forces behind him.
The Last Jedi, Little Mermaid, Korean K-Pop: all 2019’s Fat Elvis to sour fools who sneer at someone else’s little flash of excitement over something new, or just a new way of seeing what is old.
We shall answer your borders question first, thusly: Hyde Park, where wealthy elites sneer at the peasants in adjacent O’Bryonville, contains a small street called East Hill Avenue.
While hardcore professionals might sneer at the need for it from a playing point of view, the All Blacks don't!
With her peroxide hair, thrift-store clothes and expression that sat somewhere between a pout and a sneer, she was a pin-up with a subversive streak: “My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side.
She is described as having one eye, a stump of a nose, with her mouth frozen in a sneer.
BBC2 News Extra on Tuesday night rolled a clip from May 1973 demonstrating the Thatcher sneer at full pitch.