sneer's Usage Examples:

"We know that," Fitzgerald sneered.

The best-known specimen of Pitt's eloquence, his reply to the sneers of Horatio Walpole at his youth and declamatory manner,which has found a place in somanyhandbooks of elocution, is evidently, in form at least, the work, not of Pitt, but of Dr Johnson, who furnished the report to the Gentleman's Magazine.

From a popular conception of the intellectual characteristics of the school comes the modern sense of "cynic," implying a sneering disposition to disbelieve in the goodness of human motives and a contemptuous feeling of superiority.

He is no longer the arrogant, sneering prat of a few years ago.

"I will," Gladys answered with a sneer that was almost scary.

During twenty years the disciple continued to worship the master; the master continued to scold the disciple, to sneer at him, and to love him.

Charles Napier deserves praise for creating a truly hateful villain, sneering and snarling his way through the film in a hilariously over-the-top manner.

The sneers of Horace Walpole, and the savage attack of Smollett in The Adventures of an Atom, are animated by personal or political spite.

He forgot that though it is safe to lash the dunces, he could not with equal impunity sneer at those who, though they might not have the ear of the public as he had, could yet contradict and call names.

In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.

So-called " edit wars " dominated the online discussions, biases were legitimized as " another point of view " and specialists openly sneered.

Vulgar materialism sneers at the problem; duty is a fraud or hobgoblin, a mere superstition.

He became still more absorbed in his task when the Russian general entered, and after glancing over his spectacles at Balashev's face, which was animated by the beauty of the morning and by his talk with Murat, he did not rise or even stir, but scowled still more and sneered malevolently.

Synonyms:

scorn, contempt, leer,

Antonyms:

courtesy, obedience, compliance, liking,