Verb (used without object) : They sneered at his pretensions. From Dictionary.com.
From long-term sneerer to current tragic addict. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
“A pretty sacrifice I made to get it for you!” said the sneerer. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
Paxman may sneerer at politicians but its only because he knows they are lying to him. From Wordnik.com. [My hero: the BBC World Service by Jeremy Paxman] Reference
Not that years of being a hardened campaigner and professional sneerer haven't taken their toll. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*] Reference
Instead of that sort of companion, who could rally you, and keep his countenance, till he made you fall into some little inconsistency of behaviour, at which you yourself could laugh with him, you have the sneerer, who will keep you company from morning to night, to gather your follies of the day (which perhaps you commit out of confidence in him), and expose you in the evening to all the scorners in town. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
Of course, he is the most "elitest" sneerer of them all. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
There was an outburst of applause, and the sneerer was silenced. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
"A pretty sacrifice I made to get it for you!" said the sneerer. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
The sneerer hesitated, and finally said he “guessed it was.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him]
He was; and the sneerer had no idea what high tribute he was paying him. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
'Why, yes; you know you did, you young sneerer,' he said like a cross baby. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpet-Major] Reference
Stung to the quick, the high-spirited youth instantly flung the dish and its contents at the head of the sneerer. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
By sending a text message, passersby can populate a speech bubble over our sneerer-in-chief's head in a Tom Tomorrow-style single-pane comic. From Wordnik.com. [ClickZ News] Reference
There had been life and emotion in these touch-and-go speeches, covert sneers, quick retorts, innuendoes met and flung back in the very face of the sneerer. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
Woman's Rights filling its halls and galleries as never before; with a Beecher and a Tilton to defend our cause, but not one sneerer or opposer to open his or her lips. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
I have come to the conclusion that whenever he writes, Mephistopheles stands on his right hand and Raphael on his left; the great doubter and sneerer usually guides the pen, the. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference
The popular Thackeray-theory, before his arrival, was of a severe satirist, who concealed scalpels in his sleeves and carried probes in his waistcoat pockets; a wearer of masks; a scoffer and sneerer, and general infidel of all high aims and noble character. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Social Essays] Reference
All I can say to the sneerer is, I wish, that at the next conclave of personages who may be assembled to discuss the destinies of nations, there may be as much of the milk of human kindness and right feelings among them as there was between me and the labouring sawyer. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
No one but those who have tried it can be aware of the extreme difficulty of preventing the dramatic historian from degenerating into an apologist or heating into a sneerer; or understand the ease with which an earnest author, in a case like the present, becomes frantically reckless, under the certainty that, say what he will, he will be called a Jesuit by the Protestants, an. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
You toss up your head, dear angel, drub on the ground with your lovely little feet, on the table with your sweet rosy fingers, and cry, "Oh, sneerer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
You toss up your head, dear angel, drub on the ground with your lovely little feet, on the table with your sweet rosy fingers, and cry, “Oh, sneerer!. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
A cold, cynical shatterer of every noble ideal, -- a sneerer at patriotism and honour, -- a deliberate iconoclast of the most callous and remorseless type. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
Oh, thou everlasting sneerer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
You're a born sneerer, Stevie. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]
He is an onlooker and a sneerer. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Gibbie Gault] Reference
The sneerer hesitated, and finally said he. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
Katie Couric is a master sneerer. From Wordnik.com. [sassafrassin.com] Reference
You're not a sneerer, are you? ". From Wordnik.com. [Flowers for Algernon]
You’re a born sneerer, Stevie. —. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
The one, tall, smooth-tongued, and sharping, was named Ferrand; the other, short, squat, a sneerer, and punctilious, was a M. Minard. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau] Reference
The one, tall, smooth-tongued, and sharping, was named Ferrand; the other, short, squat, a sneerer, and punctilious, was a M. M.nard. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of J J Rousseau]
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