snigger
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You may snigger that the fluffy haired and sequin-loving singer-songwriter is a cheesy anti-poet, fixating on such mortal lines as “No one heard at all, not even the chair.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Large parts of the rest of the world would snigger at that.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
"The name Shag makes people snigger but a shag is a seabird who has to fight for survival against impossible odds. That's very appropriate for Happisburgh."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022
As the great Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole has written, that carries “an unpardonable snigger of elite condescension.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
He could hear a wicked snigger followed by a cry of despair.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"Little did they know why I was interested!" he sniggers.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2019
There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women that I do, nobody.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2016
This confounded the soothsayers, and thereby insured that any professional predictions as to the result of today’s vote, a year later, have been met with sniggers of disbelief.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
Then there was Jared Leto in a Givenchy suit that largely got the thumbs-up, but was hardly enough to buffer him from the sniggers about his striking resemblance to a certain biblical character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2016
After some icy staring about to detect the culprit, and several smothered sniggers from around the room, the little fat friar puffed himself up once more and declaimed firmly: “Grayling à la Redwall.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Earlier in the inquest, a witness statement said that Alan Derry had a "mocking and unpleasant tone" and "sniggered loudly" in a meeting.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Some people exchanged pleasantries, while others darted their eyes and quietly sniggered.
From Reuters ● Feb. 3, 2022
“I never bothered to listen to it, but the cover is something I probably sniggered at — I’m sure that’s what it was there for, to snigger at.”
From New York Times ● May 22, 2011
Of course, over the decades many intelligent people have sniggered down their sleeves at me for watching Corrie.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2010
The minute he saw Travis in the apron with flour on his face, he sniggered.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
But it’s not the ’90s until two of the most idiotic teenagers return, sniggering along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
But he left me his snorting, sniggering laughter, the traces of his Hull accent still stretching out his words, and his friendly voice preserved in all its rich, gentle warmth.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2022
"Not long ago, they called him 'too extreme,' 'aggressively and dangerously wrong' and 'downright dangerous,'" Baker wrote in sniggering prose.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2020
Slytherins up and down the table were sniggering, twisting in their seats to see Harry’s reaction.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
