fleer
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They mock and fleer at us sons of honest toil.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
Well, there’s been a board doon on the fleer for ages o’ man, and to-day it was taken out to be scrubbit, and what think ye was reveeled?”
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
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
Then, the foolish people, they looke, they stare, they laugh, they fleer, and mount upon fourmes and pewes, to see these goodly pageants solemnized in this sort.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
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
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