fleer

Example Sentences

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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 Fenn, George Manville

I can laugh and fleer at you now.

From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.

The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

I have heard One of your Council fleer and jeer at him.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

He had discussed everything under heaven in his brilliant, erratic way, with a fleer of cynicism toward it all, but he had left himself out completely.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various