sneerful

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English

Etymology

From sneer +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sneerful (comparative more sneerful, superlative most sneerful)

  1. Given to sneering.
    • 1771, William Shenstone, The Poetical Works of Wm. Shenstone Esq, page 210:
      Cell ever squalid where the sneerful maid Will not fatigue her hand!
    • 1928, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, The Lie, page 175:
      Whenever I find myself feeling sneerful, I just remind myself, 'But there's Jaro — intelligent and kind and strong.'
    • 1930, Harold Courtenay Armstrong, Turkey and Syria reborn: a record of two years of travel, page 78:
      My restless, itchy Syrian companion was rolling a cigarette beside me, making some observation futile and sneerful as usual.
    • 1944, Edith Pope, Colcorton, page 193:
      Abby could tell by his voice that he wasn't in his sneerful humour but was friendly drunk.
  2. Expressing contempt.
    • 1951, Where Town Begins, page 6:
      He stood for a few seconds looking after the car, on his lips a sneerful smile.
    • 1972, Douglas Hayes, A player's hide, page 114:
      Caspar Cass's Comedy Players at the Winter Garden, an ash-blonde girl said to a tall thin man with a sneerful face.
    • 1972, May Hill Arbuthnot, Zena Sutherland, Children and Books, page 656:
      Not that you do actually sneer, of course — that is stage business, not storytelling—but still a sneerful suggestion undoubtedly creeps in.
    • 2005, Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience:
      Satan must laugh in sneerful derision.
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