“Meanwhile a so-called rival diarist has been taking her name in vain, referring sneeringly to her brief career as an author of bodice rippers.”

“Cynics have sneeringly dismissed the latter role as that of a messenger boy, as if there were something contemptible about messenger boys.”

“Every one of the game's leading practitioners holds an opinion, invariably rabidly positive or sneeringly negative.”

“As sneerily as ever, he ridiculed her ideas in front of the entire class.”