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Definition of Sneerer
1. Noun. A person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Scorn, Scorn, Sneer, Sneer
Definition of Sneerer
1. n. One who sneers.
Definition of Sneerer
1. Noun. One who sneers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sneerer
1. one that sneers [n -S] - See also: sneers
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sneerer
Literary usage of Sneerer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley (1857)
"And thus an age, which, to the shallow insight of a sneerer like Gibbon, seems
only a rotting and aimless chaos of sensuality and anarchy, fanaticism and ..."
2. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"The true sneerer sneers at every body and every thing, even the weather he speaks
of with sneering bitterness,' as thus: " 1 suppose some people "call this ..."
3. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"Very likely," returns the sneerer, " for I see she has no time to comb her hair
or mend her ... I conclude it was after dinner then," replies the sneerer. ..."
4. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1886)
"The sneerer is always shut out. For a moment his sneer provokes a little titter,
but the sneer has marked the man, and he will not be invited again. ..."
5. The people's Bible, discourses upon holy Scripture. 25 vols. [and] Index by Joseph Parker (1885)
"That is the fate of the sneerer in all times and in all lands. The sneerer is
not a healthy man ; though he be sleek in flesh and quite bright with a foxy ..."
6. Confederate Portraits by Gamaliel Bradford (1914)
"He did, indeed, — unless he has been confused with Disraeli, — tell a sneerer at
Judaism that his ancestors were receiving the law from Deity on Mount Sinai ..."
7. Confederate Portraits by Gamaliel Bradford (1914)
"... indeed, — unless he has been confused with Disraeli, — tell a sneerer at
Judaism that his ancestors were receiving the law from Deity on Mount Sinai ..."
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