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
But there, you will, and your sisters will have something to fleer and jeer at then, and your father will purr in my face, and spit and swear behind my back.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
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
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
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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