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Fleer   Listen
verb
fleer  v.  (past & past part. fleered; pres. part. fleering)  
1.
To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. "To fleer and scorn at our solemnity."
2.
To grin with an air of civility; to leer. (Obs.) "Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting."





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"Fleer" Quotes from Famous Books



... outstretched, and, in obedience to the threatening gesture, the hag shrank away. But as she passed through the portal down the steps of the turret, she flung back certain words with a defiant fleer. ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... majesty's advocate for his majesty's interest. Aweel, but the twa lads, as I was saying, they haena sae muckle as the ordinar grunds, man, of liberal education—they dinna ken the very multiplication table itself, whilk is the root of a' usefu' knowledge, and they did naething but laugh and fleer at me when I tauld them my mind on their ignorance—It's my belief they can neither read, write, nor cipher, if sic a thing could be believed o' ane's ain connections ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Fleer" :   mortal, someone, runaway, smirk, soul, somebody


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