fleer
Example Sentences
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Fetch me my rapier, boy:—what, dares the slave Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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
Yes, Abner, but thus soon to yield, Neighbours would fleer, and look behind 'em; Though, with a husband in the field, Perhaps, indeed, I should not mind 'em.
From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Robert Bloomfield
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 Ernest Rhys
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