He did not mind the sneers of hostile critics.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
There was neither officious friendship to chill by its advice, nor insidious envy to wither by its sneers, nor an observing world to look on and stare it out of countenance.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It suggests the cynicism of the heartless fine gentleman who sneers at Wesley and Bunyan, and covers his want of feeling by a stilted deism.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen