fleer
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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
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
O he has doen him to his ha' To make him bierly cheer, An' in it came a griesly ghost Steed stappin' i' the fleer.
From Poetry of the Supernatural by Various
Ah! would you fleer me! his lordship among revellers! oh! the blest prodigy! well, well, I give no promise, mark; but should a certain damsel lack a partner, adod.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
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