fleer
Example Sentences
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But as she passed through the portal down the steps of the turret, she flung back certain words with a defiant fleer.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
She gave a light laugh that had in it so little mirth, was so little apposite to ridicule, that he did not feel it a fleer.
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
Fetch me my rapier, boy:—what, dares the slave Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
I can laugh and fleer at you now.
From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg
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