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Definition of Sneerful
1. a. Given to sneering.
Definition of Sneerful
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Given to sneering. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sneerful
1. given to sneering [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sneerful
Literary usage of Sneerful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cradle of the Confederacy: Or, The Times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey by Joseph Hodgson (1876)
"... and he sometimes indulged " in a bitter and sneerful ridicule which was very
diffi- " cult to tolerate patiently. The greatest of his speeches " in ..."
2. The Cradle of the Confederacy: Or, The Times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey by Joseph Hodgson (1876)
"His powers of " sarcasm were tremendous, and he sometimes indulged " in a bitter
and sneerful ridicule which was very diffi- " cult to tolerate patiently. ..."
3. Those Times and These by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1917)
""The other feller breaks in on him before Billy can git done with whut he's
sayin', " 'And you,' he says, sort of sneerful and ..."
4. The Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest by Henry Stuart Foote (1876)
"... the relation of some pleasant and characteristic anecdote; but no man was ever
less inclined than he was to be disrespectfully sneerful or ..."
5. The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors by Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh (1819)
"Such, so adorn'd, the cell I mean to sing; Cell ever squalid ! where the sneerful
maid Will not fatigue her hand, ' broom never comes, That comes to all,' ..."
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