What's the difference between scorner and sneerer?

Scorner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.

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Sneerer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sneers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sneerers will doubtless leave comments about "saddoes" and "shut-ins", oblivious that by doing so, they too are playing a character in an immense MMORPG called the internet.
  • (2) In his reflexive sense that politics should somehow be beyond the irreverent attentions of what Tony Blair called "the sneerers" lies the germ of what so many people loathe about Brussels.

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