fleer
Example Sentences
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But there, you will, and your sisters will have something to fleer and jeer at then, and your father will purr in my face, and spit and swear behind my back.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
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
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 Mary Noailles Murfree
Then out it speaks the king himsell,85 And aye as he steps in the fleer; Says, "I grant you your life, lady, Because you are of tender year."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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 Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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