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

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

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

For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

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