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Nouns
- An amount of contempt contained in a sneer.
1936, Logan Clendening, A handbook to Pickwick papers, page 65:The scheme had been inspiredly broached one afternoon when we had forgathered at Mr. Woollcott's famous apartment " Wits' End " (where the company is always capable of giving you a sneerful).
- A collective noun for Elvis impersonators (or other sneering beings?)
1979, Lewis Grossberger, “An Elvis Competition”, in New York, volume 12, page 12:Here come the Elvises. An army of them, a sneerful.
Adverbs
1928, Maud Van Buren, Katharine Isabel Bemis, Thanksgiving day in modern story, page 344:All my relatives is most sneerful particular about goods.
2007, Anson Cameron, Lies I Told About a Girl:I meet Bec outside the public toilets under the oak off Main Street and she asks how my mum is and I tell her okay, nothing but a woman's op, and she looks at me sneerful like I'm a new make of gangster or something.