sneered

verbmock, condemn

Synonyms for sneered

verb mock, condemn

Antonyms for sneered

Word Origin & History

1550s, "to snort" (of horses), perhaps from North Frisian sneere "to scorn," related to Old English fnæran "to snort, gnash one's teeth," of imitative origin (cf. Danish snærre "to grin like a dog," Middle Dutch, Middle High German snarren "to rattle"). Meaning "to smile contemptuously" is from 1670s; sense of "to curl the upper lip in scorn" is attested from 1775. Related: Sneered; sneering. Sneer word is in E. Digby Baltzell (1987).

Example Sentences forsneered

"A sneak always lies well," he replied, as he sneered at Lanning.

How could there be any hope of a boy who sneered at his mother?

Cassidy sneered, outraged by such impudence on the part of an ex-convict.

"That's what the Public are up against in this game," sneered the backer of Lucretia.

At which he sneered, and said that was a bull and a blunder, but no wonder, as I was an Irishman.

When she had sneered her sneeriest, then she said, "Turn him out bound!"

"But we're all prigs," Gilbert said once in reply to some one who sneered at Roger.

The Boches and the Poissons also sneered with an extraordinary display and outlay of grief.

"They ought to take them in out of the rain," sneered Chouteau.

But Chouteau sneered and jeered at him; what did he care whether he reported him or not!