sniggering

verb

present participle of snigger
as in laughing
to express scornful amusement by means of facial contortions we sniggered as the actor kept forgetting his lines

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  1. laughing
  2. smiling
  3. sneering
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  • Just being out on the water with a good friend, laughing and trading stories is what makes a fishing trip special.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors said that the incidents were captured on camera — and that the parents could be seen laughing at times as their children were forcefully disciplined.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of laughing
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  • The musicians were smiling, the spectators tapped and clapped, and that magical sense of timelessness was real, spanning multiple generations.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Machchhar, with one arm in a cast and medical dressings on his head, appears awake and smiling.
    — Tom Winter, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of smiling
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  • If traditional noir drew much of its energy from sneering with style at America’s sunny master narratives, those narratives have largely broken down, as has the homogenous mass-media ecosystem that endlessly recirculated them.
    — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
  • But the Velvets were sneering at the false dichotomy between those things back in the ’60s.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of sneering
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“Sniggering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sniggering. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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