Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to sneering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Given to sneering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Given to
sneering .
Etymologies
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sneer + -ful
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Examples
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It is paternalistic, and sneerful am I making up a word here?
Dana Milbank would like Sarah Palin to stop fighting and accept defeat graciously. Ann Althouse 2008
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So, having thoroughly fatigued themselves with out-swearing and out-threatening, our sneerful stock-jobber, they resolved upon exposing him, come what might.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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