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

"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

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

The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various