1. sneer - Noun
2. sneer - Verb
To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
To show mirth awkwardly.
To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.
The act of sneering.
A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. Charles Kingsley
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Ovid
My novels are what is known as popular and sell very well, but I am not a critic's favourite, indeed I am generally dismissed with a sneer as a bestseller and not reviewed at all. Daphne du Maurier
There was a laughing devil in his sneer. Lord Byron
Research, he calls it. Research.” Pitkin sneered. "Junkie!” Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. "Economist! Robert Silverberg