[f. prec.] One who sneers.
1713. Guardian, No. 29. The Sneerers … always indulge their mirth at the expence of their friends, and all their ridicule consists in unseasonable ill-nature.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch (1851), II. 795/2. The laughter of these sneerers has cost their country many a tear.
1824. Byron, Def. Transformed, I. ii. Oh, thou everlasting sneerer! Be silent!
1842. Borrow, Bible in Spain (1843), I. ii. 42. The sneerers and scoffers at religion do not spring from amongst the simple children of nature.
1874. B. Taylor, in Life (1884), II. 652. The sneerers and cavilers are growing silent one by one.
