Word: sniggering
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Freud in the Suburbs. Intellectuals, Orwell implies, may snigger if they will at Dickens' sentimentality and Kipling's imperialistic fervor, but they had much better spend their time getting wise to the far worse perversion of ethical values that is creeping up right under their disdainful noses. This perversion, says Orwell, is most clearly revealed in the obscene pulp fiction that is now, he fears, taking root in Britain...
...toiletries companies has grown to over 100, with a gross business of $50,000,000 a year, an advertising budget of $10,000,000. It had reached a point where even Hollywood thought it worth satirizing (see cut). Moreover, returning G.I.s are buying heavily scented colognes without a snigger. They have been well educated. Said one salesgirl: "From all the stuff we've mailed to servicemen overseas, I'll bet that jungle smelled awful nice...
...took Kittredge's course in Chaucer; he expressed his indignation at Skeat's edition (which we had to use) because it was expurgated with . . . . etc. Whenever we came to these passages, Kittredge patiently read the words that were not there, never with a leer or a snigger, of course, but like a man talking to men. I won't tell you a line that Skeat left in, though I know it, but at this line Kittredge, with ineffable contempt said "This is the most obscene line in Chancer and Sheat left...
...women of Hollywood have, by and large, never dressed for each other or for men, but for the camera, which makes more extravagant demands than either. Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...