Laugh vs. Sneer

Laughnoun

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

Sneerverb

(intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn

Laughnoun

Something that provokes mirth or scorn.

Sneerverb

(transitive) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.

‘to sneer fulsome lies at a person’; ‘"Now here's someone who should attend privilege workshops," sneered she.’;

Laughnoun

A fun person.

Sneernoun

A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

Laughverb

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

Sneernoun

A display of contempt; scorn.

Laughverb

To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

Sneerverb

To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

Laughverb

To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.

Sneerverb

To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.

‘I could be content to be a little sneared at.’;

Laughverb

(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Sneerverb

To show mirth awkwardly.

‘And sneers as learnedly as they,Like females o'er their morning tea.’; ‘Midas, exposed to all their jeers,Had lost his art, and kept his ears.’; ‘The fop, with learning at defiance,Scoffs at the pedant and science.’;

Laughverb

(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

Sneerverb

To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.

‘"A ship of fools," he sneered.’;

Laughverb

To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

‘Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er.’; ‘He laugheth that winneth.’;

Sneerverb

To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.

‘Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame.’;

Laughverb

Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

‘Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned.’; ‘In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy.’; ‘No wit to flatter left of all his store,No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.’;

Sneernoun

The act of sneering.

Laughverb

To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

‘Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?’; ‘I shall laugh myself to death.’;

Sneernoun

A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.

Laughverb

To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.

‘From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.’;

Sneernoun

a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls

Laughnoun

An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.

‘And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.’; ‘That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh.’;

Sneernoun

a contemptuous or scornful remark

Laughnoun

the sound of laughing

Sneerverb

express through a scornful smile;

‘she sneered her contempt’;

Laughnoun

a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing;

‘his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision’;

Sneerverb

smile contemptuously;

‘she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano’;

Laughnoun

a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;

‘he told a very funny joke’; ‘he knows a million gags’; ‘thanks for the laugh’; ‘he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest’; ‘even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point’;

Sneer

A sneer is a facial expression of scorn or disgust characterized by a slight raising of one corner of the upper lip, known also as curling the lip or turning up the nose. In The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin defined a as Darwin related the sneer to the snarl observed in non-human animals, particularly carnivores, observing that: The uncovering of the canine tooth is the result of a double movement.

‘sneer’; ‘the upper lip being retracted in such a manner that the canine tooth on one side of the face alone is shown’;

Laughverb

produce laughter