jeer
IPA: dʒˈɪr
noun
- A mocking remark or reflection.
- (nautical) A gear; a tackle.
- (nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
verb
- (intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
- (transitive, archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
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Examples of "jeer" in Sentences
- The people mock and jeer Jesus.
- Crowds continued jeering at him.
- The Jews mock and jeer at oaths.
- The Lynch twins jeer at them from a distance.
- The audience jeers and boos to the performance.
- When his spoof is revealed, the rats jeer and leave.
- It didn’t happen to you so it’s easy to jeer from the sidelines.
- He walks defiantly through the crowd as they taunt and jeer at him.
- He saw the hideous crowd jeering in the face of the powerful statue.
- He continued to jeer and then engage in personal slurs and snide remarks.
- It fuels drama by providing a large crowd to leer and jeer at the daily drama.
- Almost eight years ago, you made a remark -- this may show you that if we "jeer" at your remarks, we remember them.
- As I said to Squeege, it is very easy to jeer from the sidelines and make boastful claims of what you would do in the same situation.
- The Republicans rattle the flag and jeer from the sidelines, but owe the public an explanation why they are not the Grand Old Obstructionist Party ...
- The new Defence minister, John Hutton, has praised the idea of homecoming parades (wanting more of them) and criticised those who 'jeer' at the returning troops:
- Sime flung a jeer from the top of the canoe, the women snickered in his face, cries of derision rose in his wake, but he took no notice, pressing onward to the house of Scundoo.
- For according to Theophrastus, a jeer is a figurative reproach for some fault or misdemeanor; and therefore he that hears it supplies the concealed part, as if he knew and gave credit to the thing.