Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Karl Busch's latest "Hymn of Hate" does not merit even a contemptuous reply.... It seems too bad that thousands of prospective good citizens are excluded by our immigration authorities each year while Busch is permitted to remain here to sneer at America and Americans...
...lover of good music and a lover of fair play, I protest against the sneer at Irving Berlin in TIME of May 10, p. 18. I fail to see why the cafe in which the little boy earned his living should be dragged out again and again for the sole purpose of insulting one of our real musical geniuses...
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...stand anything but a sneer. A sneer gets my goat. But you pretty often sneer, at least I think you do; but maybe it is unintentional, so I write...
...your April 12 issue, p. 14, you tell about an "infuscate U. S. sailor." Now is that a sneer or not? It seems a funny way to express that the sailor was drunk. I think you ought to respect the U. S. Navy and not use a sneer. "Tight," or "squiffed," or "boiled" or maybe "groggy" would have meant the same and not sounded so sneering...