fleer
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To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
By a mile of engirding sea the prospect of escape looked so vain that one joined assent with a fleer.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
O he has doen him to his ha' To make him bierly cheer, An' in it came a griesly ghost Steed stappin' i' the fleer.
From Poetry of the Supernatural by Various
Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
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