: an act or sound of snickering
Examples of snicker in a Sentence
Verb
he snickered at the puzzled look on her face
Noun
a snicker of derision when we heard their offer on the house
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AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.
—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
League sources stifle their snickers in public while privately marveling at the owner’s ceaseless stupidity.
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—Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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Verb
For now, there was just me and my son and the hundreds of brook trout and cutthroat and kokanee and bullhead and bass no doubt swimming around us—weaving through our legs, snickering at our bad luck this weekend.
—AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.
—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025
Noun
The carnage leads to a sigh of an epilogue that seems, without giving anything away, like a curious letdown, a cruel little snicker from Aster that doesn’t entirely satisfy.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 July 2025
League sources stifle their snickers in public while privately marveling at the owner’s ceaseless stupidity.
3.
—Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Snicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snicker. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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