sneer

Object

• face: The next moment he turned his olive, sneering face and made a movement with his hand.

Preposition: at

• people: Of course, Chavscum readers would never sneer at people hanging England flags from their windows, would they?
• anyone: I sneer at anyone dull enough not to have a company car.
• everyone: An old lady sneer at everyone few scientists are quot sur les.
• idea: Today we can sneer at these early ideas and theories.
• effort: Why bother going if you are going to sneer at others efforts and sacrifices!
• man: The specialized research worker is always ready to sneer at the man who prefers the labors of mental abstraction.

Adjective modifier

• slight: It must be done on the young man's money. ' ' Quite a model son, ' said Carver with a slight sneer.
• contemptuous: In 1826, he gave evidence to a Parliamentary Commission on Railways at which his blunt speech and dialect drew contemptuous sneers.
• bitter: Well, love can save us from the bitter sneer of envy and the ridiculous swagger of boastfulness.
• good: Next chance meeting finds the best Punk sneer in Bradford, ' Dave Wilcox ' .

Modifying Another Word

• even: The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him.
• just: The whole article is just sneering from on high.
• not: Our father could not sneer, least of all at the blunders of a child.
• n't: And do n't sneer at conventional worship and preaching.
• openly: So-called " edit wars " dominated the online discussions, biases were legitimized as " another point of view " and specialists openly sneered.
• often: It often sneers at potentially life-saving non-pharmaceutical cancer remedies put forward by doctors, like Dr. Vernon Coleman.

Noun used with modifier

• traitor: Within its shade we'll live and die, Tho cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

Preposition: of

• command: A wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command did, however, come to mind.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: By the time the scooter boys were doing battle with Rockers on the beaches, the elite were sneering down from another position.