fleer

How to use fleer in a sentence

He is rather inclined to fleer at any pretension to American club life of earlier date.

FIFTH AVENUEARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE

And cannot I likewise, when time serves, and company is disposed to be kindly affected with it, smile and fleer as takingly?

But as she passed through the portal down the steps of the turret, she flung back certain words with a defiant fleer.

To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth.

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

However, she brandished her divining brush with the rest, and cut in now and then to keep the fleer with the untiring Nozilwane.

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.

THE STORM CENTRECHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

Julia turned at the fleer and flung a glance of acute anger at her friend.

And thereat they did laugh, and fleer, and shout, and there was flashing of tankards and jingling of cups all down the hall.

Bob has gained his point, despite a parting fleer from Bessy as to the undesirability of neglecting the Creator for the creature.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985