(Adjective) drwiący, szyderczy;
szyderczy
pogardliwy, szyderczy
urągliwy
(expressive of contempt
"curled his lip in a supercilious smile"
"spoke in a sneering jeering manner"
"makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one")
szyderczy, drwiący, szydliwy
synonim: supercilious
synonim: snide
szydzenie
naigrawanie się
natrząsanie się
drwiący
Przykłady użycia
Przykłady dopasowywane są do haseł w zautomatyzowany sposób - nie gwarantujemy ich poprawności.
There are a lot of rather disdainful references to "the kids" - "the kids have always known that the emperor wears no clothes, but they bow down to him anyway", "the modern kids - will eat right out of your hand, using great big words they don't understand" - which on first listen sound like that least lovable of sounds: the dissatisfied rock star sneering at his audience.
sneering at The X Factor is entirely understandable, but think about its multiracial parade of wannabe icons and bereft no-hopers: all human life is there.
Writing this up at the time, I rang an MP who decently worked himself into a quotable outrage ("You might as well set fire to your money in front of those less well-off"); and a social commentator for the requisite sneering ("the buyers are barely literate, one step up from a potato").
The old taunt in these parts used to be "Is that all you've got?" It was a sneering reference to the perceived overreliance on Jonny Wilkinson's boot.