Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surely in Hell!". In 1812 he proposed to Anne Isabella Milbanke, a pretty heiress. She turned him down. Two years later he tried again, and she accepted him. "They had not been an hour in the carriage which conveyed them from the church, when breaking into a malignant sneer, [Byron said]: 'Oh! what a dupe you have been . . .! Many are the tears you will have to shed . . . It is enough for me that you are my wife for me to hate you. If you were the wife of any other man, I own you might have charms...
Granting that snobbery can play a large part in art collecting, the Manhattan market, caters increasingly to middle-income buyers who collect little-known artists for sheer, not sneer, enjoyment. Since a layman's taste is apt to be better than he imagines, such independent collectors may find themselves possessing the blue-chip pictures of a future market. The blue chips of the School of Paris have now climbed sky-high in price, may or may not go higher. Last month Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art paid $20,500 for a Soutine landscape that sold at only...
...year except one. The exception: New Jersey Senatorial Candidate Clifford Case, who early in the campaign denounced McCarthy as a "distracting and divisive" force in the Republican Party and in the nation. McCarthy was opposed to Case for "reasons I think will be made public before election." With a sneer, he vaguely referred to some "material" about Case...
...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...
...SMIRK, SNEER, CONSPIRE, PLOT, DECEIVE, GLOAT, CONNIVE, LEER and DEFAME...