fleer

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

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

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Yes, Abner, but thus soon to yield,   Neighbours would fleer, and look behind 'em; Though, with a husband in the field,   Perhaps, indeed, I should not mind 'em.

From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert

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