The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNORT which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2018.
Sound of contempt crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNORT | 71 % | 5 |
| SSS | 7 % | 3 |
| BAH | 7 % | 3 |
| TUT | 4 % | 3 |
| HISS | 4 % | 4 |
| TSK | 4 % | 3 |
| PFUI | 4 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sound of contempt
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- jeer
- sneer
- taunt
- derision
- scorn
- ridicule
- disdain
- mockery
- sneers
- gibe
- insult
- mocking
Crossword Answer definitions
SNORT noun- The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
- A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco).
- A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
- A submarine snorkel.
- To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
- To express or force out by snorting.
- To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
- To snore.
- (of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SNORT
- Express contempt
- Horsey comment
- Huff and puff
- Noisy, nasal sound
- Bullish comment
- Stall call
- Tavern quickie
- Contemptuous sound
- Horse sound
- Bit of laughter
More clues leading to the result SSS
- 1970's lottery org.
- Draft agcy.
- Draft inits.
- Draft org.
- Govt. agcy.
- Conscription org.
- Former draft org.
- Gen. Hershey directed it, 1941-70
- Sound as a tire goes flat
- Draft init.
More clues leading to the result BAH
- Cry to Cratchit
- Dickensian epithet
- Pooh-__
- Scrooge's retort
- ___ Humbug
- Scrooge's favorite reply
- Ebenezer's epithet
- Grouch's word
- Scrooge's oath
- "Phooey!"
More clues leading to the result TUT
- Egyptian boy-king
- Mild rebuke
- Egyptian boy king
- Palindromic pharaoh
- Boy king
- Steve Martin's "King __"
- Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing
- Legendary mummy
- Subject of a Steve Martin song
- Name in 1922 news
More clues leading to the result HISS
- Sound of disapproval
- Greet the villain
- Cat's warning
- Cat's greeting
- Disapproving sound
- Sound of air escaping
- Alber __
- Catty warning
- "Back off!" in felinese?
- Greet a villain
More clues leading to the result TSK
- "Shame!"
- "That's a pity"
- Sound of disapproval
- "Naughty, naughty!"ยท
- "Shame on you!"
- Expression of disapproval
- "Naughty, naughty!"
- Disdainful interjection
- Condescending cluck
- "For shame!"