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sneerworthy

sneerworthy adjective: able to be sneered at or mocked.

Adjective

sneerworthy (comparative more sneerworthy, superlative most sneerworthy)

  1. (informal) Able to be sneered at or mocked.
    • 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...1995 June 25, SubGenius, “My groups”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet)
    • 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

Forms of sneerworthy

comparativemore sneerworthy
superlativemost sneerworthy

Origin of sneerworthy

From sneer + -worthy.

Questions about sneerworthy

What does sneerworthy mean?
Sneerworthy means able to be sneered at or mocked.
What part of speech is sneerworthy?
Sneerworthy is an adjective.

Words near sneerworthy in the dictionary

  1. sneeringly
  2. sneerings
  3. sneerless
  4. sneerocracy
  5. sneers
  6. sneerworthy
  7. sneery
  8. snees
  9. Sneesby
  10. Sneetches
  11. sneeze

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