Word: sneeringly
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...high-stakes boys at Las Vegas might sneer at such a penny-ante game. But the Puerto Ricans aren't greedy. Says one San Juan croupier: "Every day fresh money arrives by the planeload...
Though all our psychiatrist friends have been pressing to have this column published in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, a freshman who happened to look it over said with a sneer, I'll see M for myself...
CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. With a chuckle rather than a sneer, a band of young Englishmen keep their eyes on the oddball and carry a big slapstick in this hilarious revue...
...students really scorn husband and hearth? I shall not resort to the statistics on Harvard-Radcliffe marriages. Surely we, the paragons of the cranially ovoid female do not deny the effects of home environment. Back in the boondocks of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Brooklyn it is considered impolite to sneer at mommy's handiwork. We who hail from these parts of the frontier learned early on that we would do well to emulate her. Let us face the brutal truth together, we are not all the daughters of math PhDs, senators, professional historians, and queens...
Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script for Emily, obviously intended a black comedy in the style of Dr. Strangelove, a savage sneer at war and all it bloody works. But if Strangelove with cheery ferocity reminded its audiences that every cloud has a strontium lining. Emily in confused conclusion managers to suggest that every human value has a wormy caramel center...