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Definition of Sneers
1. sneer [v] - See also: sneer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sneers
Literary usage of Sneers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"The backbiter is always hated, and if now and then one of the great consorts with
him, it is less from pleasure in his sneers than from esteem for his ..."
2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"High rents.—Flour contracts in Congress.— Efforts to escape conscription.—Ships
coming in freely.—sneers at negro troops.—Hopes of French intervention.—Gen. ..."
3. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"You can imagine that this relieves us of our greatest discomfort, and in fact we
now receive compliments where we used to hear nothing but sneers. ..."
4. The Theory of Credit by Henry Dunning Macleod (1889)
"... therefore, the Productive funds of the country are not increased by Credit"
And several other passages to the same effect Mill sneers at those ..."
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