sneerer

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sneer

(snîr)

1. A scornful facial expression characterized by a slight raising of one corner of the upper lip.

2. A scornful tone or statement.

v. sneered, sneer·ing, sneers

v.intr.

1. To assume a scornful or derisive facial expression.

2. To speak in a scornful or derisive manner.

v.tr.

To utter with a sneer or in a sneering manner.

[From Middle English sneren, to mock, alteration of Old English fnǣran, to breathe heavily; see pneu- in Indo-European roots.]

sneer′er n.

sneer′ful, sneer′y adj.

sneer′ing·ly adv.

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Noun

sneerer - a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression

scorner

disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable

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beffatore

sneerer

[ˈsnɪərəʳ] N → mofador(a) m/f

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sneerer

n → Spötter(in) m(f)

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Sneerers and prophane wits may perhaps laugh at her first fright; yet my graver reader, when he considers the time of night, the summons from her bed, and the situation in which she found her master, will highly justify and applaud her conduct, unless the prudence which must be supposed to attend maidens at that period of life at which Mrs Deborah had arrived, should a little lessen his admiration.

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ere thirty he has joined the ranks of the sneerers. It is not his fault.

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Thus he is never identified with the Devil, who is the fallen angel Lucifer, although he resembles him in part; he is more the pure fiend of pagan superstition in the earlier stories; and, by Goethe's time, the fiendish sneerer at all values has an air of urbane sophistication.

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Interrupter Humphrys took on sneerer Paxman with glee as women across the land woke bolt upright with their morning tea.

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And now there's a growing suspicion the sneerers of - which I was one - got it wrong by underestimating them.

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Apparently yes, because Ana also has to deal with the Sneerers, a popular group of girls intent on making her life miserable.

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And those that called the emperor's bluff were dismissed as, in Mr Flash's words, cynics and sneerers.