sneering

And then a whisper ran through the whole congregation, "Who is she?" but when she was discovered, such sneering, gigling, tittering, and laughing ensued among the women, that Mr Allworthy was obliged to exert his authority to preserve any decency among them.

I am not sneering. I would not for a moment sneer at anything that helps to keep hearts tender in this hard old world.

"He stood there, in Norfolk jacket, pigskin puttees, and all the rest of the fashionable get-up out of a bandbox, sneering at me covered with filth and grease to the eyebrows and looking like a navvy.

I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness--frightened to, I could see that--but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.

A general smile followed, in which Wolf Larsen joined, and the dinner went on smoothly, thanks to me, for he treated me abominably the rest of the meal, sneering at me and patronizing me till I was all a-tremble with suppressed rage.

This mood of black depression endured for a while, and then Mr Pickering suddenly became aware that Subconscious Self was sneering at him.

As the frantic old man thus spoke and thus trampled with his live and dead feet, a sneering triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a fatalistic despair that seemed meant for himself --these passed over the mute, motionless Parsee's face.

I stand by my letter IN a recent letter I accused the Tories of sneering and wallowing "in their mendacity and dishonesty".

TORY Brexit backer Michael Gove last night accused a journalist of "sneering" support for the Remain camp in a live TV clash on the referendum.

SNEERING No wonder David Cameron, who never misses a chance to relapse into schoolboy sneering, has taunted the Labour leader mercilessly.

Summary: Boris Johnson condemned "sneering" at Starbucks on Sunday after the firm volunteered to pay millions of pounds more tax.

One paper compiled tweets from celebrities - for example, jour nalist/novelist Tony Parsons wrote: "Sneering at the Olympics is like sneering at Christmas."