Thesaurus results for SNEERING

sneering

verb

present participle of sneer

as in laughing

to express scornful amusement by means of facial contortions they brushed off his sneer and went about their business

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Recent Examples of sneering Cassie’s OnlyFans adventures, for interest, were depicted with a kind of sneering derision toward the character’s poor judgement and lack of savvy. — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 June 2026 Newman’s God is laughing at our prayers, sneering at our cries for help. — Time, 6 May 2026 But there’s also a kind of sneering conventional wisdom toward Vance that doesn’t seem to have much basis in political reality. — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026 In character as a free spirit who scorns social convention, Davis is all haughty tosses of the head and sneering lines. — Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026 Chalamet, whose grandmother, mother, and sister all performed with the New York City Ballet, is not sneering at the artists. — Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026 That lack of an official accounting encouraged a willful amnesia about the regime’s crimes and, Mendonça Filho has argued, led directly to the 2018 election of Jair Bolsonaro, who ran on a platform of sneering nostalgia for the era of military rule. — Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026 Where is the patriotism in sneering at America’s great achievements? — Emilie G.c. Thompson, STAT, 15 Jan. 2026 Even the epithets for the Kansas City Chiefs are built on divisional rivalry and that team’s long track record of success, not sneering dismissiveness. — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 30 Nov. 2025

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Imagine tall trees across the lake, a calm breeze, children laughing in the distance, the scent of your old canvas tent – there’s no forgetting the sights, sounds, smells and feel of summer camp.

— Seth T. Kannarr, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Darnbrough told the judge that Wilson was seen laughing in surveillance video recovered after the attack.

— Julie Hanson, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Definition of laughing

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His statement included a smiling picture of the senator with his wife Elaine Chao, a tacit response to speculation online that McConnell had died or was incapacitated.

— Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 13 July 2026
The happy couple also shared a low-key smiling selfie as part of their announcement post, which appeared to have been taken in a photo booth.

— Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026