Word: sneering
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...luminous eyes snapping, Premier Pashitch vowed that he will not convene the Narodna Skupstina until May 6, when it is due to assemble in normal course. He rapped out a string of oaths at a cabinet meeting and demanded that M. Raditch retract his charges. With an elaborate sneer, the Minister of Education tendered his resignation, together with those of his four Croatian fellow Ministers. King Alexander, seriously alarmed, was reported in late despatches to be attempting to reconcile Raditch and Pashitch; to restore outward harmony between the Croats who wish to secede from Jugoslavia and the Serbs who want...
...then good form to ridicule sincere men, like those who recently met at Atlanta to consider this momentous question, and who found inspiration in singing the noble hymns at which you sneer...
...Sneer the intelligensia, George Jean Nathanwise: "If Mr. Jordan were a baker, would he varnish his own pretzels?" Opine rival auto advertising writers: "He deserves most of the credit for tapping a new source of auto advertising appeal-the 'red blooded youth' racket...
Other editors wrote a statement that everyone found acceptable. Partisans of either side were able to find in it a sneer at the other, while to neutral minds it seemed neither sneer nor lament, but a statement of fact: "The Americans have the money...
...collector. . . . " 'Walk !' Do you suppose for one minute that a weakling, uttering that syllable, would have produced any result? If the Jesus who looked down on that pitiful wreck had been the Jesus of the painters, the sick man would have dropped back with a scornful sneer and motioned his friends to carry him out." Jesus was an outdoor man ". . .a tall broad-shouldered man towers above the crowd . . . listen, hear his laugh!" Jesus was a deft advertiser. He did not bulletin such clumsy blurbs as JESUS OF NAZARETH WILL...