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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sneer.

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Examples

  • "You were like all the rest, young fellow," Martin sneered.

    Chapter 29 2010

  • "You were like all the rest, young fellow," Martin sneered.

    Chapter 29 1908

  • Jack kind of sneered at the punk like he wheeled out from under a rock.

    MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK Dennis Hiatt 2009

  •         Jack kind of sneered at the punk like he wheeled out from under a rock.

    MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK 2009

  • ` ` I remember going to pee wee and bantam tournaments and people kind of sneered and said, 'Aw, California kids can't play hockey.'

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - Edmonton vs. Los Angeles 2006

  • "He beat you, did he?" sneered "Mad Alek," aroused to fury again.

    The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur 1919

  • Really, openly sneered, which isn’t easy to do with a serious weapon aimed at you.

    Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007

  • If she does, her character has undergone an even greater change, than any she has yet experienced in the course of all her revolutions. lord Orford is believed by his critic to have "sneered" at every body. sneering was not his way of showing dislike.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

  • Rebecca also alleged that Kriel's father, Hermanus, had "sneered" while his son was being sentenced.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • The great tragedy of Reconstruction, according to DuBois, was that so many whites turned down the gift, “sneered” at black culture and mocked it, and chose to consider it inferior.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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