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sneerocracy

noun

Etymology

From sneer + -ocracy.

  1. derived from *fnesaną✻ — “to pant, gasp”
  2. inherited from *fnāʀijan✻
  3. inherited from fnǣran — “to snort”
  4. inherited from sneren — “to mock, scoff at”
  5. suffixed as sneerocracy — “sneer + ocracy”

Definitions

  1. Openly critical and condescending people viewed collectively.

    • While the media sneerocracy only came round to Oliver because of his pro bono project, the huge number of people buying his books and wheeling their Sainsbury's trolleys in his wake had already responded to his charisma.
    • The sneerocracy, however, are appalled to even countenance that such an uncool character could attract any woman.
    • Only the Cameroons, paralysed as they are by the fashionable prejudices aired at metropolitan dinner tables and the terror of getting on the wrong side of the BBC sneerocracy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA