0 past simple and past participle of sneer
1 to talk about or look at someone or something in an unkind way that shows you do not respect or approve of him, her, or it:
Descriptive analysis is sometimes sneered at as being inherently contradictory, though from my perspective, arguably every form of analysis involves some degree of description.
I say that this question outside is a very serious one, and is not a matter to be laughed at or sneered at.
All the people who have sneered at missionaries should bite off their tongues.
It saddens me that they are both institutions that in today's climate are often sneered at and undervalued.
They are not going to be sneered at and jeered at because they do not happen to belong to a political party.
We came back and the clergy jeered and sneered.
They have poured scorn on it and sneered at it.
I observe that in the debates elsewhere that number was rather sneered at as being of no importance.
