sniff (at)

verb

Definition of sniff (at)next
as in to walk over
to show contempt for her carpentry skills are nothing to sniff at

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  1. disdain
  2. hate
  3. disrespect
  4. despise
  5. diss
Verb
  • As a student at The John Carroll School, Paula Etting disdained public office.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Good free-market neoliberals had historically disdained this idea, believing government attempts to meddle in the economy would have bad results.
    Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of disdain
Verb
  • Louis can hate himself for the rest of his life very easily without the help of anyone else.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The history that made us into creatures capable of coöperation also gave us the capacity to hate one another in the aggregate, to draw sharp lines dividing the in-group from the out-group.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of hate
Verb
  • Some readers appreciated the disclosure while others felt the introduction disrespected Gary Gygax, the person cited as the main creative force behind Dungeons & Dragons.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Following the comment, many country music fans took to social media, expressing confusion and anger over the remark, which some interpreted as disrespecting Shaboozey.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of disrespect
Verb
  • White argues that the crypto industry has become a re-creation of much of what its original ideology claimed to despise.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Beatles ’64 captures how widely the band was despised at the time by the adult establishment, from Bob Hope to the British Embassy.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of despise
Verb
  • The altercation started with Banks dissing Charli XCX (though really dissing Weho gays), and somehow ended with Healy threatening to slap Banks and Banks threatening to sue Healy.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
  • How to get Apple Music Replay As a collective, Apple Music listeners flocked to pop princesses and diss tracks this year, awarding Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar top slots on the charts.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of diss
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“Sniff (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sniff%20%28at%29. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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