And this was not, as some bloodless moderns have sneeringly insinuated, a mere repetition of the proximity between the benevolent stage and the quarrelsome stage of drink.
It is the custom in many quarters to speak somewhat sneeringly of that element which is broadly called the picturesque.
If you be Tom Lunsford," sneeringly retorted the Master of Hollymead, "not likely.
How little we realize what tragedy may be going on in the hearts of those whom we sneeringly condemn!
So your best girl is dead," sneeringly said a New York magistrate to a young man who was arrested for attempting suicide.
At first Kalum was very much frightened by this declaration; but shortly he laughed sneeringlyand said: "You loafer and vagabond!
But before his body was laid to rest, the countess produced the will, and sneeringly told Cuno that he might show his learning by reading what was written therein--namely, that he no longer had any business at Zollern.
Grandma shook her head mournfully at the degeneracy of the age, while sister Anna spoke sneeringly of Mr. Talbott's cracked piano.
Irony is a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct reverse of what he intends shall be understood.
He may have felt the remark, too, which his opponents sometimes sneeringly made of him, that he never enjoyed a classical or collegiate education.
At the curb a drunken woman reeled against her, peering sneeringly into her face with ribald laugh, but Beth Norvell pushed silently past, and vanished into the protecting shadows beyond.
When, overwhelmed with grief and despair, she appeared, hesneeringly asked her whether she would choose to be burned, drowned, or buried alive.
When General Gage was erecting intrenchments on Boston Neck, the provincials sneeringly remarked that his mud walls were nothing compared to the stone walls of old Louisburg.
Chih Neng compressed her lips and sneeringly rejoined, "Are you going to have a fight even over a cup of tea?
Many of Hopalong's most successful and spectacular plays had been less carefully thought out beforehand than this one and he laughed sneeringly as he looked at the men who had been so greedy as to try to clean him out the second time.
Steadying himself once more he began a new deal with excess caution and was bluffed out of the pot, the gambler sneeringly showing his cards as he threw them down.
At first Woodson flatly refused to run, sneeringly reminding his friends of the lack of cooperation he could expect from the very men who needed law and order and leadership most.
The guard laughed sneeringly at the fight they made, three to one, over a single piece of copper: Who was to know that they fought over a hollow piece of steel, charged twice times three with leaden death?
He sneeringly replied: "I pay fur my licker an' it's nun uf yer dam business how much I drink uf it.
The other party is sneeringly called the "Low and Slow," and corresponds with a similar faction within the High Church which enjoys the sobriquet of the "High and Dry.
Woodward, sneeringly asked: "Whence came these excessive sensibilities that cannot bear a few slaves in a remote Territory until the white people establish a Constitution?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sneeringly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
