Sentence examples for sniggering from inspiring English sources

'sniggering' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe someone who is laughing in an annoying, sarcastic, or condescending way. For example: "The students sniggering in the back of the classroom were a constant distraction to the teacher."

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sniggering

noun

The act of one who sniggers.

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Home: Camping in the New Forest Sandy Balls holiday park in the New Forest (stop sniggering) has introduced a cheaper alternative to its woodland lodges and mobile homes for this summer: camping pods.

I am grateful to Hadley Freeman for highlighting the paradoxical attitude of the British towards alcohol (Alcoholism is tragic. So why can't Brits stop sniggering?, 4 June).

The audience started sniggering and I felt a right chump, but was cheered the next day when listening to 5Live, where John Inverdale invented a startling new phrase: rose-cunted glasses.

It's a work of art in the way it is challenging world media to republish it and thus join Charlie Hebdo's gentle, sniggering army of freedom.

I do mean sniggering.

All the sniggering and pontificating beggars belief".

Two big things help explain this: voting rules and sniggering.

"Vote blue, get real", a sniggering minister told Bagehot.

It is the sniggering Republicans, of course, who have prevented that from happening.

In time America's fearful "Japan bashing" gave way to sniggering, then indifference.

Despite some sniggering in the national and international press, Mr Broun cruised to re-election, though in a nice display of local dissent, 4000 locals reportedly wrote in the name of Charles Darwin on their ballot papers.By way of retort, tea party types and anti-establishment groups point to establishment-backed candidates who lost winnable races from North Dakota to Virginia.

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