sniggering

verb

present participle of snigger
as in laughing
to express scornful amusement by means of facial contortions we sniggered as the actor kept forgetting his lines

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  1. laughing
  2. smiling
  3. sneering
Verb
  • Being pelted on the world’s stage with the modern equivalent of rotten tomatoes – memes and scathing online posts – hasn't kept the dancer, born Rachael Gunn, from laughing.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Indeed, at lunch, instead of separating into groups to eat, all 16 participants form one mega table and spend the half-hour joking and laughing together.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of laughing
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  • The second image shows De Laurentiis, her boyfriend Shane Farley and her ex-husband Todd Thompson, along with another woman, posing for a photo as Jade sits on her bed, smiling.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
  • So pretending imbalance isn't happening — like when one partner is regularly absorbing all the work and smiling through it — just delays the same resentment that often festers in exchange relationships.
    — Mark Travers, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of smiling
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  • If traditional noir drew much of its energy from sneering with style at America’s sunny master narratives, those narratives have largely broken down, as has the homogenous mass-media ecosystem that endlessly recirculated them.
    — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
  • But the Velvets were sneering at the false dichotomy between those things back in the ’60s.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of sneering
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“Sniggering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sniggering. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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