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sneering

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1. sneering - Noun

2. sneering - Adjective

3. sneering - Verb

5. sneering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sneer

Source: Webster's dictionary

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PARADOX: A statement that reduces the matter at hand to complete obscurity while clarifying it. [...] Paradoxes are sensitive and can be routed by sneering. Gene Wolfe

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering. Ayelet Waldman

I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love. J. B. Priestley

We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F.B.I. is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex life scandles [sic] and plain blackmail when they should be catching criminals. They also have a habit of sneering at local law enforcement officers. Harry S. Truman

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. Woodrow Wilson

Even the most "Rational" people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal. Orson Scott Card

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