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UK
/snˈiəɹɪŋli/
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ADVERB
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with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner
`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly
How To Use sneeringly In A Sentence
- He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed. John of the Woods
- I again persisted in asking just what hour I might expect to be honored with the tickets, I was sneeringly told, a media dia, at noon. It's about (Mexican) time!
- Hairy-chested poseur and Sarkozy foreign-policy adviser Bernard-Henri Levy sneeringly referred to "the chambermaid," brayed about DSK's high standing, and called him "a friend to women. A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises
- Publisher Eileen Tabios accompanies her poet as graphic alter ego, supplies drawings and indeed handwrites his text, a duo then stepping onto their small stage in their shared regalia to participate in what I might describe unsneeringly as an intense art dealership. Archive 2007-09-01
- `I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly
- What projects would they confect after rambling about the place where outbreaks of three infectious diseases for instance, the West Nile virus in 1999 were alleged to have started; where wild animals are killed on sight but a habitat for several bird species is nevertheless supported; and where the serial killer Hannibal Lecter would have enjoyed a brief respite from his incarceration but one which he sneeringly rejected? 101 Plum Islands
- The media fixation on all things negative is so ubiquitous now - and any attempt at "cosiness" or "optimism" is dismissed so sneeringly by the chattering classes and ordinary Joes alike - that I find it hard to imagine any other way. The norms of Norman Rockwell | Peter Preston
- Cynics have sneeringly dismissed the latter role as that of a messenger boy, as if there were something contemptible about messenger boys.