Citations:sneerful

English citations of sneerful

Nouns

1. 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).

1. 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

1. • 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.