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Snigger


Definition:

  • (n.) See Snicker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (2) Almost 5,000 people commented beneath the article on the paper's website and many more did so on Twitter, with the majority of the comments sniggering at Brick's Zoolander-esque self-descriptions and the seven photos of her that the Mail published, all but begging for cruel comparisons to be made.
  • (3) Try saying “political debate in Britain” without sniggering.
  • (4) Also the way Blatter behaved, if you remember on stage, having a snigger and having a laugh at us.
  • (5) A political debate that revolves around sniggering at women’s body parts and smirks about gay hairdressers?
  • (6) Instead of sniggering at its misfortunes we should all be very worried indeed about its fate.
  • (7) There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do, nobody.” Asked about the nine women who have come forward to accuse him of the sexually predatory behavior he bragged about in a 2005 video leaked earlier this month , Trump insisted they were all either seeking “10 minutes of fame” or had been somehow orchestrated by Clinton’s campaign.
  • (8) In leftwing circles it is always felt there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings.” He was right too: in no other progressive European tradition do you find a similar reluctance to fly the flag.
  • (9) I struggle with the po-faced earnestness of my role: it's hard to "teach from the heart" when I'm sniggering about what they all look like with their bums in the air.
  • (10) The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.
  • (11) At this point, we expect the doorbell to ring and schadenfreude to leap out from behind the marble fountain before barging past us and sniggering at the gold toilet.
  • (12) The leading American neoconservative William Kristol recently wrote an article in which he says that browsing Orwell in an airport store reminded him once again why Democrats in the US may not be fit to govern: their "sniggering" attitude to American failure in Iraq shows that "they no longer even try to imagine what action and responsibility are like".
  • (13) [Sniggers for ages] What's that story about a house party at yours when Alex Ferguson turned up?
  • (14) In the end, however, Carter Page offered little except confusion and the occasional snigger, during a rambling presentation and an evasive question-and-answer session.
  • (15) We giggle at these cosmopolitan class-traitors and snigger at these soulful hipsters.
  • (16) There was much sniggering in rehearsals as all these posh public schoolboys tried to be working class.
  • (17) (Roars of approval from the Tory benches, suppliant sniggers from the sketchwriters.)
  • (18) Some of the younger contingent sniggered as he spoke.
  • (19) Straw has recently claimed that the report has played a key part in a "deep-seated cultural change" towards race in Britain: "The pervasive, open racism of the fifties and sixties, the pernicious, sniggering racism of the seventies, eighties and nineties is gone.
  • (20) I'd like to think a certain famous Argentinian football player who died yesterday is sniggering away up in heaven, laughing at how well his divine retribution has worked in the wake of the host nation foolishly not extending him the courtesy of a minute's silence before kick-off in tonight's match.

Sniggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.
  • (v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.

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