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How to use sneering in a sentence

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Finally, he stopped in a hallway decorated only by a dark portrait of some old lady sneering aristocratically down her nose at me.
Schumacher is arrogant, triumphalist, sneering and a routine breaker of the rules.
There are no idiot dads acting like bumbling lunkheads in front of their sneering, wisecracking wives and children.
Thus it's easier to regain the high ground by laughing or sneering, or complaining about art getting in the way of commuters.
His stunning voice has always had a caustic force behind it, almost as if he's sneering and laughing all at once.
He was contemptuous and sneering in pointing out that we were in the wrong carriage.
Can negative ninnies like my mother, who raise their families in dark, sneering realms of impossibility, be taught to embrace the possible?
The sneering henchmen that talked to her earlier walked forward and handed him a switchblade from his pocket.
As far as I can see, it's the privately educated sneering at the under-educated.
Pointing out that media poshos sneering at council houses isn't much of a groundbreaker.
His eyes speak volumes and a sneering curl of his lip or raising of the brow conveys as much as a page of dialogue or explanation.
Surely the whole event reeked of the political correctness that you've made a fortune from sneering at?
Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison.
It's a sneering analysis of the British political apathy that was prevalent at the time, and a blimmin' good indie-rock choon, too.
The attacks were generally very personal and adopted a sneering tone towards particular individuals.
She would be unlikely to advance her interests by sneering contemptuously at the people of her own state.
He's like Alan but with better hair and without the sneering, punchable arrogance.
It's a deuced bit better than becoming a sulking musical conservative, sneering at anything after middle-period Beethoven.
I suspect that it's sneering anyone who'd consider watching it, and I don't think programme makers should gob on the hand that feeds them.
Alan Rickman has a lot of fun reprising his role as the sneering Professor Snape and Robbie Coltrane is routinely excellent as the genial Hagrid.
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At length, however, came in the same sneering fellow I had marked on the wharf, calling loudly for swats.
An occasion for sneering at the rhetors and Dikasts is always tempting to him.
Hes been sneering and hollering like the sorehead he is, and its sure getting too much for me.
Some fell to patronizing him, some to advising him, and some to sneering at the hubbub he was making.
And he proceeded to read with a sneering imitation of Zoie's cloy sweetness.
He grinned at Scorio, but the grin was lopsided, more like a sneering grimace.
And I'm appalled at sneering commentators who had the gall to suggest those who rejected Labour are woolly-headed and stupid.
Daguenet scrutinized her slyly, sneering in his chaffing way.
Dont feel downhearted about it, was mignons sneering 198 consolation.
The detective indulged himself in a cackle of sneering merriment.
His manner to Raskolnikov had changed during the last few minutes, and he was ruder and more sneering every moment.
Enna was beginning a sneering remark, but her father stopped her.
As she delivered it, Legree looked in her eyes with a sneering yet inquiring glance.
And if you'd got a spark of pride in you, you'd be ashamed to see the stables emptied, and everybody sneering about it.
And after glaring at me wildly he would go on, jubilating and sneering.
This is Unionism boiled down to its essence and stuck on a front page for every community in Scotland to see their sneering condescensions.
But now, to Westerham's surprise, Melun had turned to sneering.
Manu's tone was sneering, and Tarzan knew that it was because little Manu thought all creatures feared mighty Bolgani, the gorilla.
Brian De Palma's flamboyantly handsome gangster epic pits rigid integrity against sneering decadence.
Old Wilson was waving a paper over his head and laughing and sneering.
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