sneeringly
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Snappish, at times sneeringly so, she answered my questions with a brusque dismissiveness that made me think that she was doing this interview under duress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
So for a couple of generations, British traffic cops sneeringly asked speeding motorists, “Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?”
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2020
The Collaboration's efforts were embraced by nurses and younger doctors, who for the first time had a means of challenging the decisions of their elders — what proponents sneeringly called “eminence-based medicine.”
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2020
In “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood,” the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio sneeringly dismisses the Manson girls as “hippies.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2019
"You'll never have revenge, great Hrothgar, mighty as you are," he said, rather sneeringly, in a hard, dull voice.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
