a. [f. SNEER sb.] a. Of persons: Given to sneering. b. Of words, etc.: Of the nature of a sneer; scornful.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Economy, III. Wks. 1764, I. 303. Cell ever squalid! where the sneerful maid Will not fatigue her hand!
1844. Tupper, Heart, xi. 120. Out-swearing and out-threatening our sneerful stock-jobber.
1880. S. Wales Daily News, No. 2514. 6/6. We had a sneerful and insulting answer.
Hence Sneerfulness.
1873. Leland, Egypt. Sketch-Bk., 203–4. Cherishing no feeling of scorn or sneerfulness against them.
