fleer

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They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various

"Durn my boots ef I didn't furgit the password!" cried Nick Peters with his little falsetto laugh, that seemed keyed for a fleer, although it was most graciously modulated now.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories 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

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