He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.

The stepmother sneered at Cinderella.

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 too, I could see that — but carrying it off really like Satan.

He turned to his orange juice sullenly, sneering that every little additive would sign him up for experiments he wanted no part in.

Tom was sneered at.

He did something stupid and was sneered at.

He curled his lip in a sneer.

There was a laughing devil in his sneer.

Every grandiose tweet provokes a chorus of gibes, jeers, and sneers.

My professor sneers at science books for the general public.