fleer

Example Sentences

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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

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

But there, you will, and your sisters will have something to fleer and jeer at then, and your father will purr in my face, and spit and swear behind my back.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville

For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

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