fleer
IPA: fɫˈɪr
noun
- (archaic) Mockery; derision.
- One who flees.
- A surname.
verb
- (archaic) To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn
- (archaic) To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
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Examples of "fleer" in Sentences
- Sims had a derisive smile, a fleer, and it grew meaner by the second.
- There is another word, "fleer," which sounds like a portmanteau of flinch and sneer but isn't.
- Betty, with a very saucy fleer, said to Shorey, There would be a trial of skill about that she fancied.
- Democritus; one jester to flout at another, one fool to fleer at another: a great stentorian Democritus, as big as that Rhodian
- Maria, a fleer at mere ponderosity, skipped and whisked from left to right with fay-like airiness of foot until a thrill of delight went through the camp.
- This affords my offspring frequent opportunities to fleer and jape at me as I cower in my seat at the movie theater, or press myself back against the couch while watching a DVD at home.
- Caravanserai and the workmen of the dyery, he was certified of the vileness of Abu Kir; so he upbraided him with flout and fleer and said to his guards, “Take him and parade him about the city and the market-streets; then set him in a sack and cast him into the sea.”
- The communities both in North and South Carolina, law enforcement, have come together in this case, and right now, we are being aided by the United States Marine Corps, helicopters from Cherry Point, and also the North Carolina highway patrol, with special heat-seeking devices known as fleer units, and we have ground teams ready that are and on the ground ready to assist in the location, hopefully and prayerfully of Miss Donovan.
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