snigger

Example Sentences

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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

I’d said it in a jokey tone, and Tommy responded with a little snigger, but then there was something hanging in the air that hadn’t been there before.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro