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say it: snir
sneer is a noun and verb meaning "a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a contemptuous or scornful remark
express through a scornful smile
“she sneered her contempt”
smile contemptuously
“she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sneer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.