fleer

Example Sentences

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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 L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

I have heard One of your Council fleer and jeer at him.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles

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 Strachey, Giles Lytton