sneer

sneer is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
2. intransitive verb. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
3. intransitive verb. To show mirth awkwardly.
4. transitive verb. To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
5. transitive verb. To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.
6. noun. The act of sneering.
7. noun. A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.
8. noun. a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls

   Synonyms: leer

9. noun. a contemptuous or scornful remark
10. verb. smile contemptuously

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

11. verb. express through a scornful smile

    "she sneered her contempt"

Synonyms

leer

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sneer:

ernes, renes

Common word forms

sneers, sneered, sneerer, sneerful, sneering, sneerless

Words from these letters

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