fleer

[ US /ˈfɫɪɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words
  2. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
    fugitives from the sweatshops
VERB
  1. to smirk contemptuously
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How To Use fleer In A Sentence

  • Hicks, are you < i > crazy ?" fleered Deacon Radford, moved to excitement, despite his great faith in the versatile youth. T. Haviland Hicks Senior
  • Not!" fleered Butch, whom Hicks 'easy self-confidence never failed to arouse. T. Haviland Hicks Senior
  • What dares the slave come hither, cover'd with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
  • There was an air about the place that seemed to scorn the facile awe it woke in the breasts of the beholders and that fleered at the human banalities upon their lips. The Palace of Darkened Windows
  • A Herculean full-back -- Bah !" fleered Butch, for all the campus knew of T. Haviland Hicks Senior
  • Exhibition flight -- of your imagination!" fleered Mary V, curling her lip at him. Skyrider
  • I know what you're leading up to," Dawson fleered. The Queen of Air and Darkness
  • Oh, yes, something has got to be did!" fleered Beef McNaughton, the davenport creaking under the combined tonnage of himself and Butch T. Haviland Hicks Senior
  • The wind rushed upon her wildly, and dragged her tattered skirt this way and that, and fleered at her, and whistled at her; and when she paid not the slightest attention to his cruel treatment of her, fled tumultuously down the street. Dreamland
  • “Oh, we can admire the darling murals,” Dolgorov fleered. The Earth Book of Stormgate
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