"The face the teacher made when she read this was best described as a sneer."
"Wearing a sneer, he told the complaining workers to get back to work or be fired."
Another word for sneer is smile.
If you are anorexic or bulimic, people feel sorry for you, but if you are a compulsive overeater, they sneer and call you a glutton.
I once sneered at ill fitting outfits, now, since acquiring arthritis, they're the only kind I can get into. Be careful what you sneer at!
To answer the question: "What sentence could you use for sneer?" One could answer: "I sneer at your puerile attempt at a question." (Seriously, puerile and sneering do go rather well together ... sneering is that ugly facial thing that people do when they can't help their face but show how below themselves they believe you to be ... puerile is the usual [internal] insult that goes with the sneer face ... sneering is all about contempt ;))
The word sneer is associated with a mocking type of smile. It will therefore rather have a negative connotation than a positive one.
to sneer is to have a cornering of the lip
Jeer is a word meaning to mock in an evil way. It is not quite a sneer, but it means to make fun of someone in public. "Rocko led the jeer of the crowd with his taunts of Micheal."
Ear - The man made a sneer in my ear. Queer - His sneer sounded quite queer. Tear - I shed a tear at his cruel sneer. Fear - His sneer made me fear his intentions. Clear - His intentions and sneer were not clear. Beer - Maybe he sneered because of the beer.
No, it is not possible to sneer politely.Since sneer is a scornful or mocking smile or remark, politeness is not showered in the form of facial expression of the person doing sneer. Politeness and sneer cannot act together.
Synonyms for Grimace: frown, moue, scowl, smirk, sneer.
The past tense of sneer is sneered.
The word "snare" comes first alphabetically. In animal trapping, however, you would sneak in and then set up the snare, and when the trapped animal would snarl, you would sneer (from a safe distance).