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[ verb ] express through a scornful smile
Examples "she sneered her contempt" Used in print (The Wall Street Journal,...)And in the role of Will Danaher , Philip_Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not_only one American but the whole British army , if he chose . The necessity is not clear to me , and , in_any_case , to present a case-hardened race-driver as saying he has left his car , which , or whom , he calls `` Giuseppe '' , parked `` on the Place_Vendome sneering at a dozen Bentleys and Rolls-Royces parked around him '' is not a liberty ; it is an absurdity . |
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[ verb ] smile contemptuously
Examples "she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano" Used in print (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)Rankin sneered at him . Related terms |
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