sneer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

2. 2

   To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression

   To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.

   • to sneer fulsome lies at a person
   • There was a quick scuffle within the cabin. "Leave me alone, I say, and git!" cried the cook. "Can't I be friendly without you hollerin?" sneered the miner. "You wouldn't have been 'lowed to stay round here if it hadn't been for me."
3. 3

   A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally…

   A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

   • Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinked lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
   • He supposed then (with a sneer—M. Paul could sneer supremely, curling his lip, opening his nostrils, contracting his eyelids)—he supposed there was but one form of appeal to which I would listen [...]
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   1. 4

      A display of contempt

      A display of contempt; scorn.

      • And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

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