snigger
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You may snigger that the fluffy haired and sequin-loving singer-songwriter is a cheesy anti-poet, fixating on such mortal lines as “No one heard at all, not even the chair.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Large parts of the rest of the world would snigger at that.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
"The name Shag makes people snigger but a shag is a seabird who has to fight for survival against impossible odds. That's very appropriate for Happisburgh."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022
As the great Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole has written, that carries “an unpardonable snigger of elite condescension.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
I’d said it in a jokey tone, and Tommy responded with a little snigger, but then there was something hanging in the air that hadn’t been there before.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Australia is yet to see the best of Smith – he averages 23.16 against them from six one-day internationals - and any suggestions he is Gilchrist's heir will be met by sniggers down under.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
“Trump”, a word that has inspired sniggers in generations of British children, has provided inspiration for more than fart jokes in a nationwide children’s story writing competition.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017
This confounded the soothsayers, and thereby insured that any professional predictions as to the result of today’s vote, a year later, have been met with sniggers of disbelief.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
Then there was Jared Leto in a Givenchy suit that largely got the thumbs-up, but was hardly enough to buffer him from the sniggers about his striking resemblance to a certain biblical character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2016
His sniggers became uncontrollable, his body jumped and Piggy rebuked him with dignity.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Earlier in the inquest, a witness statement said that Alan Derry had a "mocking and unpleasant tone" and "sniggered loudly" in a meeting.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Some people exchanged pleasantries, while others darted their eyes and quietly sniggered.
From Reuters ● Feb. 3, 2022
At one point this sort of behaviour would have been glorified as rock’n’roll, its buffoonery sniggered at.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2016
“I never bothered to listen to it, but the cover is something I probably sniggered at — I’m sure that’s what it was there for, to snigger at.”
From New York Times ● May 22, 2011
Phineas Nigellus paused again in his struggles to free his eyes and sniggered.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
But it’s not the ’90s until two of the most idiotic teenagers return, sniggering along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
"Not long ago, they called him 'too extreme,' 'aggressively and dangerously wrong' and 'downright dangerous,'" Baker wrote in sniggering prose.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2020
Grant remembers the case being "a riveting and juicy business" that was "a source of much sniggering" when he was in school.
From BBC ● May 10, 2018
Neither did Sully nor Anton, though they were still sniggering as Conor picked up his pace.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
