fleer

Example Sentences

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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

Why didst thou fleer at our Friend, who feigned himself asleep? he said nothing, but how dost thou know what he containeth?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

Fetch me my rapier, boy:—what, dares the slave Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William

They mock and fleer at us sons of honest toil.

From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Penrose, Margaret

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