fleer
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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 Richards, Frank
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