fleer

Example Sentences

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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 Penrose, Margaret

It was half open, and the moon’s licht danced in on the fleer.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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 Housman, Clemence

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles