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Fleer   Listen
noun
Fleer  n.  
1.
A word or look of derision or mockery. "And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorn."
2.
A grin of civility; a leer. (Obs.) "A sly, treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers."





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"Fleer" Quotes from Famous Books



... reached me, O auspicous King, that when the King heard the words spoken by the door-keeper of the 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." Whereupon quoth Abu Sir, "O King of the age, accept my intercession for him, for I pardon him ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... turn yesterday, it's mine to-day. What a game! You laughed and fleered at me when I was on the cutter's deck. I can laugh and fleer at you now. I say, you do look a rum 'un. Just like a big monkey in ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn


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


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