Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a gibing manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a gibing manner; scornfully.
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- adverb With
gibes ;scornfully .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disrespectful jeering manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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All kind of harsh treatment being tried in vain, he no longer held any intercourse with the soldiers; he said the army was corrupted by the centurions; he sometimes gibingly called them tribunes of the people and Voleros.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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"You little fool!" he said half-angrily, half-gibingly; and thereafter they rode in silence -- she too mortified with shame and anger to venture upon words.
The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912
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For he had already been driven by egotistic governments from several of his commanding positions, and people were gibingly asking whether the new political gospel was being preached only as a foil for backslidings.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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1628: Which most gibingly, vngrauely, he did fashion
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How you hold back from your happiness! "she cried gibingly.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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