Words similar to sneer

Example sentences for: sneer

How can you use “sneer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That is not meant to be a sneer.
Lifeless from the start, jewels sneer at death, and they require zero maintenance.
On the down side, the film's pretty much a one-trick pony: It "continually dares us to sneer at their garish tastes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Somehow the critics come out smiling anyhow.
The tall, skinny Norton bobs and slits his eyes and twists his mouth into a yokel sneer and is wholly impossible to dislike, even when his character keeps crazily upping the ante.
Bedoya's smooth Mayan face contorts into a sneer, Badges?