Antonyms for sneer
snɪərsneer

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. sneer

   A sneer may be simply a contemptuous facial contortion, or it may be some brief satirical utterance that throws a contemptuous side-light on what it attacks without attempting to prove or disprove; a depreciatory implication may be given in a sneer such as could only be answered by elaborate argument or proof, which would seem to give the attack undue importance:

   Who can refute a sneer?

   Paley Moral Philosophy bk. v, ch. ix.

   A fling is careless and commonly pettish; a taunt is intentionally insulting and provoking; the sneer is supercilious; the taunt is defiant. The jeer and gibe are uttered; the gibe is bitter, and often sly or covert; the jeer is rude and open. A scoff may be in act or word, and is commonly directed against that which claims honor, reverence, or worship. Compare BANTER.

   Synonyms:
   fling, gibe, jeer, mock, scoff, taunt

   Preposition:
   Only an essentially vicious mind is capable of a sneer at virtue.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. sneer

   Antonyms:
   compliment, eulogy, commendation, deference

   Synonyms:
   scoff, gibe, jeer, taunt, disparagement, contempt, scorn, superciliousness, disdain

Matched Categories

1. • Contempt
   • Express
   • Smile

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. sneer, leernoun

   a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls

   Synonyms:
   leer

2. sneerverb

   a contemptuous or scornful remark

   Synonyms:
   leer

3. sneerverb

   express through a scornful smile

   "she sneered her contempt"

4. sneerverb

   smile contemptuously

   "she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano"

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1. sneernoun

   Synonyms:
   gibe, scoff, jeer, gird, derision

2. sneerverb

   Synonyms:
   mock, gibe, scoff, flout, jeer, deride, ridicule, scout

How to use sneer in a sentence?

1. Charles Hendrickson Brower:

   A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

2. Johann Kaspar Lavater:

   A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

3. Louis Auchincloss:

   Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

4. Vachel Lindsay:

   Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

5. Charles Kingsley:

   The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

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