Word: snickeringly
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...Harvard," says the World Almanac, "has the largest university library in the world." The 325 commuters who daily make Dudley Hall their center of collegiate operations can only snicker. The Center does boast a room, hypocritically called a library, which houses in its one bookcase a dozen or so catalogues of various graduate schools. But no books, just a dictionary...
...with what the fish don't want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...
...Victorian Age, Red Plush is one of those placid novels that wallow in family trivia, delight in minor, certain-to-be-resolved family crises and snicker at family eccentrics. The family is accorded an existence of its own, dominating and dwarfing the individual characters; it becomes a sort of metaphysical entity, unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were...
Even the insurgent editors from Cambridge were amazed in mid-morning when they offered a bogus paper to some vendors of the "Dartmouth Pictorial" to attract customers. "Yeah, I heard about this," said one. The editors started to withdraw as their masterpiece did not even inspire a snicker...
...Eternal Footman is always there to hold his hat and snicker: "The servant gave me my coat and hat, and in a glow of self-satisfaction I walked out into the night. 'A delightful evening,' I reflected, 'the nicest kind of people. What I said about finance and philosophy impressed them; and how they laughed when I imitated a pig squealing...