The sneerer hesitated, and finally said he "guessed it was."
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
Her father was one of a rapidly increasing class of men who are a danger to the community,- a cold, cynical shatterer of every noble ideal,-a sneerer at patriotism and honour,-a deliberate iconoclast of the most callous and remorseless type.
"The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance"
Marie Corelli
No one but those who have tried it can be aware of the extreme difficulty of preventing the dramatic historian from degenerating into an apologist or heating into a sneerer; or understand the ease with which an earnest author, in a case like the present, becomes frantically reckless, under the certainty that, say what he will, he will be called a Jesuit by the Protestants, an Infidel by the Papists, a Pantheist by the Ultra-High-Church, and a Rogue by all three.
"Literary and General Lectures and Essays"
Charles Kingsley