And what is with the inappropriate sniggering?

Pride and shame, fire and ice, burned away at him always; he could not endure the sniggering that seemed to follow even the slightest accented misuse.

He snarled at them and cracked the whip in mock anger and then stalked off, but while it set the men back to work, it didn't stop the sniggering.

Variety says "Despite a pedigree that includes Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and many of that program's stars, Sit Down seldom rises above sniggering double entendre.

In answer to a slightly sniggering request for information, a spokesman told The Telegraph: "Actually, In the UK and Ireland they are called Wraps because quite simply they are made with a tortilla wrap.

I know it grieved Lachlan to see them led away, tied to Yankee carriages or ridden by sniggering Yankee grooms, but it saved us Majpoor's acres, and put chickens in the yard, two cows in the barn, pigs in the pen, and new clothes on our backs.

Pointing fingers and snickering grins flashed among the tables.

It got a lot of press here in the West and a lot of snickering in your defense industries."

This listing for Meltdown Comics (no snickering) demonstrates a problem with their system:

Then she holds up her crown, to loud applause, which cuts off the snickering by a clique of girls high up in the bleachers.

After some good-natured snickering, they reloaded their Betacams and microphones into their vans and left.

In it young monks break the rules, sneaking out at night and snickering over Victoria's Secret catalogues and snapping wisecracks during kitchen duty.

Dumpstaphunk follows through on the Meters' and Neville Brothers' snickering, sputtering, wah-wah New Orleans funk, and onstage it charges through songs from Sly Stone and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

At the first gleam of gold, all their knives came out with a sardonic metallic snickering, and the first man to snatch for the treasure reeled away, trying to push his intestines back into the long clean slice through his stomach wall.

The extra soundproofing was also useful when a don wanted to entertain company of a romantic nature without providing an audible show for snickering teenagers; and the teenagers liked the soundproofing too, since it meant they could sneak around after hours without the dons hearing.

"And because you do not allow anyone who works for you to say anything to anybody without your permission," Ms. Messinger said to snickering from the audience, "I need to wait until I can have a conversation with Rudy Crew to know where he stands on that."

This, of course, lead to much sniggering from the class.

I'm going to be sniggering for the rest of the day - thanks!

A few men sniggered, but the tension did not break.

If that got out, people all over the region would be sniggering at him behind his back even more than they did now.

A desire for children, the home, real love, have become things to snigger at.

He wondered if they'd still be sniggering at the end of the month.

At the time people sniggered, but we are not laughing any more.

The man in black said, and seemed on the verge of sniggering.

She had the impression that it was thinking about sniggering.

And will it be marked down if he's caught sniggering?

And every one, except for the dog, who was sniggering, had his mouth open.

The thought struck him as funny, and he sniggered to himself.

The other two sniggered, watching Chris to see his reaction.

He could almost imagine that the horses were sniggering as well.

You might as well ask them to snigger at the sky."

He took his tie out of the gasoline and started to snigger.

One or two of the other dwarfs started to snigger.

The dog sniggered all the way to the main courtyard.

And from the battlements above she could hear the sound of sniggering.

Around her a group of self-conscious, sniggering men had gathered.

One felt an impulse to sing, to break into a run, to snigger.

She could hear him snigger as the short man sodomized her.

Am I the only one who sniggered at this headline and thought it meant something else?

So, now it was out in the open, instead of being sniggered about, hinted at.

White House officials sniggered and predicted the photo would hurt their rival.

She snickered as they got out of the car to walk to the door.

Two of the boys looked at each other and snickered.

One or two in the group snickered a little, but that was all.

The two men looked at each other, and both of them suddenly snickered.

I snickered, thinking of the surprise they were going to get.

A week ago he'd have been snickering into his apple.

And snickering comments about the way I look or am.

The next time someone says he's from the Valley, instead of snickering give him a chance.

He looked at me and then snickered, as though I were extremely simple.

He snickered at the thought, which was really pretty comical.

Sarah snickered first and then both of them were laughing.

He grinned at her, then shook his head and snickered.

Tammy snickered at that; I could never think anything to myself when she was around.

Someone in the back snickered, although he had not meant it as a joke.

A boy behind Charlie snickered and whispered something to a girl next to him.

When the motion was first raised, the judge, a man, snickered.

I'm tired of people snickering behind my back at our engagement.

Eli snickered to himself, thinking about tonight when they set up camp.

Even the croupiers start snickering when they see me coming.

The picture pleased her so much, she snickered all the way to the bedroom.

Puddle stopped snickering long enough to say, I knew you was up to something.

That sort of broke what tension in the air and we all snickered a little.

She snickered when she saw what I was looking at.

I snickered at the thought of talking to myself.

It is time to stop snickering about the politics of all this and understand the real issue, bias against women.

Sniggers: And how much longer will he keep us here?

He felt a little better already, well enough to have a quiet snigger.

There was a snigger from the soldier by the window.

Only after a few seconds did I become aware of the sniggers all around me.

Sniggers: He ought to have been a general or a premier.

I for one will be having a little snigger if he remains calm in a crisis.

She didn't have to look around to recognize where the snigger came from.

As he was about to begin, he heard a snigger.

Sniggers came from the hold, and she fought down a giggle.

The man in the armchair gave a snigger of anticipation.

Sniggers: What will you do when they come in?

"All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger.

One of the guards turned a snigger into a sneeze.

I even managed a small snigger at that one.

Somewhere off to their left, there was a snigger.

They were both happy with the arrangement, ignoring the sniggers from other residents of the street.

Not a snigger to suggest that anybody in the audience even knew this was a joke.

"You didn't say that last night," the boy said with an unpleasant snigger.

It had the most annoying snigger in the world.

This line is always good for a snigger in pansy-left circles.

She said nothing, and Reynolds could hear the stifled sniggers behind him as he sat down.

He was answered by a snigger that did nothing to calm his nerves.

He could hear a wicked snigger followed by a cry of despair.

There had been a time when he could not have produced a sinister snigger even to win a very large bet.

There was a snicker at the other end of the line.

I shook my head and let out a small snicker.

It's easy for others to roll their eyes and snicker.

There seemed to be a slight snicker in his voice.

One of them whispered behind a hand, and there was a snicker.

From somewhere at the back of the class came a faint snicker.

That brought a snicker from one of the two miners on Israel's right.

Again, there was not even the hint of a snicker from the audience.

After the publicized operation, everyone will look at me and snicker.

Snicker if you will, but do not come between a man and his font!

The very name evoked another knowing snicker from the class.

There was a snicker from one of the others.

With a snicker, she came down the rest of the way and walked to the closet for her coat.

A sarcastic snicker sounded from the other side of the table.

As things were, he let out a snicker that almost turned into a guffaw.

If I said something at dinner she would smother a snicker.

The distraction works; I suppress a snicker and open my eyes to look at you.

"This is a game we play every year, if you have not figured it out yet," the mayor said with a snicker.

No one answered, which earned a mean snicker from the sergeant.

This brought a snicker from outside, so it was obvious that I had an audience in the hall.

He made the obligatory snicker and I rolled my eyes.

"Or at least someone who's good in bed," Courtney added with a snicker.

"We thought you were gone for good," Chet explained with a snicker.

The fear didn't follow me there, but a sort of snicker followed.

The snicker of the horses was his only greeting for long moments.