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Example sentences for: sneering
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After a sneering account of Reagan's remarks that entirely misses their political significance, Morris writes,
At the end of the set, someone in the crowd yells out the word "." To which Dylan, after a pause, by sneering back the title of a song he just played: "I Don't Believe You."
One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.
Gore's sneering gestures all seemed rehearsed and theatrical.
For example, this is her interpretation of one of Barbey's religious monsters (the seductor and rapist of an innocent country girl in A Nameless Story ): The name Riculf seems to be a clever composite of two French words: rire, meaning to laugh, comes directly from the Latin rictus meaning a mocking sneering laughter; and culer meaning to back away or go astray.