sneerworthy

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adjective

Able to be sneered at or mocked.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivesneerworthy (comparative more sneerworthy, superlative most sneerworthy)

comparative more sneerworthy · superlative most sneerworthy

  1. informalAble to be sneered at or mocked.

    It would be shorter than conventional performances of the play at, say, the OUDS, and I was sure my tutor who loathed the sight and sound of Kenneth Tynan would find the appearance of Gertrude on stage with two borzois—as proposed—especially sneerworthy when I told him I'd seen it.

    2013, Paul Redgrave, Passage, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 237
    1 more example

    I never claimed not to. But that is rather beside the point. You've asserted that some sorts of discussion in these environs is sneerworthy `mental masturbation', while your own comments appear to Your Humble Narrator's addled perceptions to meet roughly the same criteria for which the comments of others are met with distain.

    1995 June 25, SubGenius, “My groups”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet)

Origin

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APA

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“sneerworthy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sneerworthy. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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