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I got several quizzical looks and perhaps a snicker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

"Like, wait a minute, you didn't pay anything at all, and yet you still have complaints?" she said with a snicker.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

McCurry never belittled anyone, though occasionally the Bigfoot questions would cause other reporters to snicker.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

And if it was easy to snicker at “Avatar’s” hippy-dippy sincerity, it was also easy to surrender to its multiplex transcendentalism, its world of synthetically crafted natural wonders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

I hold back a snicker, because he seems to really mean it.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

In point 16 of the X post, Karp wrote: "The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

I can also explain why, despite the snickers and stares and perpetually blooming bruises, it’s still worth it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2025

“It speaks to my heart and speaks to humanity,” she said over snickers from the audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

That threat was greeted with snickers of laughter.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

As soon as I lifted my arm, I could feel Lu's and Ghost's snickers run down my spine, prickly like ice water.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

The gullible may have stood in awe, but sophisticated travelers scoffed and snickered at the big egg, obviously laid by an ordinary ostrich.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2024

Department heads and their employees snickered that hot flashes provoked her pointed queries during board meetings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2023

As the Akron Beacon Journal would note, the townsfolk snickered at the irony.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2023

I’m still waiting for that invite,” Laxalt snickered, speaking from a podium emblazoned with Trump’s name.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

And Ms. Bioh has the girls’ attitudes to her take an implausibly abrupt turn from sycophancy to snickering mockery when Ericka exposes the hollowness of her pretensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“No, I’m not,” says Emma Stone, failing to stay exactly stone-faced while pointing at a snickering Yorgos Lanthimos: “He thinks that I’m …”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

I wasn’t the only one: A small contingency of the audience at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater started snickering and laughing before he had even fully stepped onstage.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

But snickering and irreverence aside, the Milan native was also a towering figure — both influential and polarizing — who reshaped the Italian media and political landscape in his image.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Behind me, I hear Ainsley and her friends snickering.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein