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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



... mild kind of lunacy, an everlasting opium dream without the opium; but I am grateful to him for living such a life, since it has bequeathed us some exquisite poetry,' said Lesbia, who had been too carefully cultured to fleer or flout ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... that list, and play at bo-peep—ay, fleer and backbite me; but they may come for wool and go back shorn: 'His home is savory whom God loves;'—besides, 'The rich man's blunders pass current for wise maxims;' so that I, being a governor, and therefore ...
— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... "Die, traitor; fleer! though thou 'scape Our ambush on thy devil's racer, Caught here upon this marshy cape, Thy bones the muskrat's brood shall scrape, The sturgeon suck—Death thy embracer!" So shouts ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend


Words linked to "Fleer" :   soul, mortal, contempt, someone, somebody, simper, flee, person, individual, fugitive, scorn, runaway, smirk


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