sneered
Example Sentences
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When I said I had moved up from Fort Lauderdale, my host sneered: “Florida is a swamp.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Miller’s wife Katie, a podcaster, sneered on social media that journalists like Alfonsi, who “want to become the story,” lose their integrity when they push back.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
Rowling sneered at Oates’ concern, while Musk referred to the author as “a bit of an extinctionist.”
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
A couple of generations ago, Antiguan dialect was sneered at and children were commonly forbidden to speak it in school.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
The New Yorker sneered at the error, Ogden Nash wrote a poem about it, Walter Cronkite refused to say it on the air, and Strunk and White declared it illiterate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
