67 Verbs to Use for the Word sneer

Why do we brand him in our satire here? 'Tis this-his niggard soul provokes the sneer. ~A

Mr. Wilks laughed scornfully and essayed a sneer, while his friends, regarding his contortions with some anxiety, expressed a fear that he was not quite himself.

To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age.

We know, full well, the outcry that will be made by multitudes, at these declarations; the multiform cavils, the flat denials, the charges of "exaggeration" and "falsehood" so often bandied, the sneers of affected contempt at the credulity that can believe such things, and the rage and imprecations against those who give them currency.

As for me" As for him, he smiled a sneer and a threat together.

He associated freely with women, without even calling out a sneer or a reproach.

Here the old judge summoned up a sneer of most sovereign contempt.

Then when Sanballat had done speaking, there follows the loud coarse sneer of Secretary Tobiah.

Nor let the worldling sneer.

The lone cowman ignored the sneer.

Oh, no, I didn't mean a sneer when I said cheap.

You will be kind enough, my sardonic friend, to repress your sneers.

" "Deep feeling isn't so easily shaken; true love should brave all thingseven sneers and blows.

Wingate, shall we form a screen in front of you, or are you content to be toppled from your pedestal?" Wingate met the ill-natured sneer indifferently.

'I have brought pistols,' his second said, disregarding the sneer.

" I could not bring myself to admit, even to Marshall, that I was willing to shoot a man for the sake of the notoriety it would bring me, not because I feared in him any revolt of conscience, but because I dreaded his sneers; he was known to all Paris, I was an obscure something, living in an obscure lodging in London.

" Even the shock of death could not, so it seemed, drive the sneer from the thick lips; mockery was frozen in the dead eyes.

Let Voltaire, whose function it was to deny, enjoy his feeble sneer, that "the difficulty of pronouncing those respectable names"to wit, Melchtad, and Stauffager, and Valtherfurst, to say nothing of Grisler"injures their celebrity."

But could he face the neighbours' sneers, the servants' contumelyworse than all, his wife's bitter tongue?

And swinging there by the neck, there fell away old sneers from off his lips, and scoffs that he had long since scoffed at God fell from his tongue, and there rotted old bad lusts out of his heart, and from his fingers the stains of deeds that were evil; and they all fell to the ground and grew there in pallid rings and clusters.

"Honestly, Artie, honestly," Dory went on, with the friendliest earnestness, "isn't there something wrong about anything that causes the man you are by nature to think and feel and talk that way, when his father is not a week dead?" Arthur forced a sneer, but without looking at Dory.

Where are gone the sneers with which army surgeons and parliamentary orators opposed Mr. Sidney Herbert's first proposition to send Florence Nightingale to the Crimea?

Nor must the man who has his face heavenwards be surprised if he hears Tobiah's sneer.

He could not help the slight sneer.

" The old man did not hide his sneer.

67 Verbs to Use for the Word  sneer