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Definition of Sneery
1. marked by sneering [adj SNEERIER, SNEERIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sneery
Literary usage of Sneery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
""He went on so with his sneery talk 'twas hard for me to make out if he was in
earnest or not, — savin' how he remembered me in times way back, ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"He went on so with his sneery talk 'twas hard for me to make out if he was in
earnest or not, — sayin' how he remembered me in times way back, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"In the midst of it, Bill —perhaps because his knee pained exceedingly— looked up
at Peter in the "gallery" and called out in a sneery but not very loud ..."
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