Associations to the word «Sneering»

Wiktionary

SNEERING, verb. Present participle of sneer
SNEERING, noun. The act of one who sneers.

Dictionary definition

SNEERING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne