sneer

1. 1

   To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.intransitive

   • So General Oakfield's friends taunted him with having been beaten, and Blackeston's friends sneered at him for not having called the general out. Blackeston, a studious and sensitive man, felt the taunts of his friends as only a student can
2. 2

   To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.transitive

   • to sneer fulsome lies at a person

syn. gird · jeer · jibe · laugh at · scoff · scorn · sneer

ant. cheer · laugh with

1. 1

   A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

   • Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinked lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
   • He supposed then (with a sneer—M. Paul could sneer supremely, curling his lip, opening his nostrils, contracting his eyelids)—he supposed there was but one form of appeal to which I would listen [...]
2. 2

   A display of contempt; scorn.

   • And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.