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: --
The fact that up to 500,000 people will benefit is not something to be sneered at in any respect.
The mining industry has, of course, the advantage of a quota, which is sneered at when it is applied to importation from overseas.
In other words, proper training and further education are worthwhile objectives, and not something to be sneered at as mere palliatives for unemployment.
But if you stand up and criticise them, you are sneered at for having been denied a place.
It is easy to be sneered at by association.
The industrial insurance societies have been sneered at.
There is only one solution; it may be sneered at, and that is the taxation of land values.
I observe that in the debates elsewhere that number was rather sneered at as being of no importance.
