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sneering
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sneering has 1 sense
- sneering(s = adj.all) snide, supercilious - expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"
THESAURUS
sneering
arrogant, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, derisive, derisory, disdainful, exclusive, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, haughty, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, scornful, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, snickering, sniffy, sniggering, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snorting, snotty, supercilious, taunting, teasing, toploftical, toplofty, twitting, withering
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