Usually means: Displays scorn through facial expression.
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  1. sneers: Merriam-Webster
  2. sneers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sneers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sneers, sneers: Wordnik
  5. sneers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sneers: Wiktionary
  7. sneers: Dictionary.com
  8. sneers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sneers: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See sneer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sneer)

verb:  (intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
noun:  A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
noun:  A display of contempt; scorn.
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