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sneering

adjective C2
  1. Contemptful, mocking. · He made a sneering comment about their closeness.
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Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility,--
Pride and Prejudice, p. 302 · B2

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