In the earlier ages, when a party of warriors would be merry, their mirth appears to have consisted usually in ridiculous boasts, or in rude remarks, or in sneers at enemies or opponents.
The author sneers at the Romish church as an imposture, ridicules the Protestants as seekers after the philosopher's stone, and shows disrespect to Christianity itself.
That, what with sneers from enemies and cheapening shrugs from friends, It will cost you all the earnings that a month of labor lends.
No surprise need therefore be felt that Hamlet, though representing Montaigne, sneers at, and morally flagellates, himself.
The Malcontent, where Marston sneers at the scene in act iv.
Now, Jonson sneers at the word 'brock' in a way not unfrequent with Shakspere himself, in regard to various words used by Jonson against him.
To his infinite relief he had suddenly recovered some of that wrathful determination that Ivus Niles's sneers had given him earlier in the evening.
I hope your sneers may make you as many votes to-day as they have in the past.
Honorable Thornton, I do not mind your sneers and slurs.
Maillefort would have made your life a burden by his sneers and ridicule, until you would have been compelled to hide yourself from very shame.
Suppose we should find a party that suited us and Ernestine, isn't the marquis, by his sneers and sarcasms, quite capable of inspiring the innocent girl with an aversion for the very person we want her to marry?
However, he seemed equally indifferent to the sneers of big boys and the pity of small ones, and lived his own queer life with much apparent enjoyment to himself.
While now amongst thy female peers Thou tell'st again the soothing tale, Canst thou not mark the rising sneers Duplicity in vain would veil?
I said more,--I assured him that no sneers of party, nor any intimidation of a set, should ever prevent me giving the Government a support whenever the measures were such as in my conscience I approved of.
She is probably not indifferent to a good name, and her retention of the whip under all the sneersshe receives is some evidence that she at least regards it as still having a defensible use.
Your sneers almost make me ashamed of my honest pride in my State--my enthusiasm for our sacred cause.
Deep feeling isn't so easily shaken; true love should brave all things--even sneers and blows.
The Whigs swallowed the sneers of their opponents as best they could, and passed their bill.
Despite all the Eastern sneers at the "savages" of the West, it was from Eastern men that this most effective method of debauching political life came.
A stupid, ill-rhymed, cumbrous old epigram sneersat the sable son of woe flying from cannibals and seeking mercy in a lawyers' inn.
When Home Rule was proposed by Mr. Gladstone, he had a thousand foolish sneersfor the measure and its author.
He scoffs and sneers but what is he but a two- legged cricket, brown, yellow or black?
He attended the Parliament House in the character of a critic, and could give you stale sneers at all the celebrated speakers.
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing; they are biting and bitter; their words are steeped in gall and wormwood; sneers as well as insolent and insulting remarks flow from their lips.
But really these silly sneers at woman's ability have lost their force, and are best met with a laugh at the stupendous 'male self-conceit' of the writer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sneers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
