fleer
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I can laugh and fleer at you now.
From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg
And cannot I likewise, when time serves, and company is disposed to be kindly affected with it, smile and fleer as takingly?
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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
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
The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
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