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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of snicker.

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Examples

  • Then again, we all kind of snickered at the idea of movies based on Disney rides, and that whole "Pirates of the Caribbean" thing turned out all right.

    Ridley Scott Passes Go, Collects $200 To Direct ‘Monopoly’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • When I read the word "snickered" in the NYT account I immediately thought, Mickey Kaus didn't snicker; only Andrew Sullivan snickered!

    Mickey Kaus on Sniggergate. Ann Althouse 2009

  • According to Judge Robreno, Mr. Wider's lawyer, Joseph Ziccardi, "snickered" at his client's conduct and failed to stop his client's tirades and was therefore culpable as well.

    If Spitzer Loses Law License, 2008

  • I liked the music and kind of snickered at the politics.

    Jonathan Diamond: Charlie Still Don't Surf 2008

  • I thought the spot was mildly amusing you might say I "snickered" at it... ouch but I must say I was confused about why it would be considered manly to yank out your chest hair.

    <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/02/thats-not-funny-snickers.html" title="That's not funny! Ann Althouse 2007

  • He also had me sign a model release form, which I kind of snickered at, cuz I'm like, What are you planning to do with these, anyway?

    Archive 2005-11-01 Holly 2005

  • He also had me sign a model release form, which I kind of snickered at, cuz I'm like, What are you planning to do with these, anyway?

    searching for meaning, money Holly 2005

  • That pious deacon who had not "snickered" for above forty years, would have found his moral sensitiveness somewhat disturbed by the free, untrammelled way in which he spoke and acted.

    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888 Various

  • The echoes of the ringing axe came back to them from an adjacent hillside; a squirrel barked and "snickered," as if he too were a party to the fun; crows overhead cawed a protest at the destruction of their ancient perch; but with steady and remorseless stroke the axe was driven through the concentric rings on either side into the tree's dead heart.

    Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Some people might object to the word, and say that he only "snickered," or made faces.

    Jarwin and Cuffy 1859

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