fleer

Example Sentences

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

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

Why didst thou fleer at our Friend, who feigned himself asleep? he said nothing, but how dost thou know what he containeth?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

Maria, a fleer at mere ponderosity, skipped and whisked from left to right with fay-like airiness of foot until a thrill of delight went through the camp.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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