The critics sneered, but her audiences loved it. They sneered "too proud or too scared?". Phyllis left and Dominic sneered behind her back. He sneered that Castellano was a "milk drinker" and a "pansy". Beta Theta Pi brother who publicly sneered at his badge. Strange sneered that he could write a better song in five minutes. Adolf sneered at the thought of a lifetime spent enforcing petty rules. "It's easy enough to pick holes in other people's ideas, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," he sneered. Many West Point graduates sneered at political generals. They were originally sneered at but became accepted within one or two generations. Sneered at then, it's aged rather well.