fleer
Example Sentences
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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
He expressed himself, of course, with eccentric ABANDON—it would have been impossible for him to do otherwise; but he was content to indicate his deepest feelings with a fleer.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
I have heard One of your Council fleer and jeer at him.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
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
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 Mary Noailles Murfree
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