Definitions
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- adverb In a
jeering manner.
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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A blue jay flashed through the golden silence waking the echoes with his noisy laughter and the flickers high up in the dead stumps called jeeringly to each other.
In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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The navvy staggered out of a public-house, diffusing a powerful aroma of gin all round him; when he saw his Chief Pastor he raised his hand in a gesture of mock benediction and called jeeringly to the Bishop, "The Lord be with you!"
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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Bonillas had spent so much of his life in the United States that political enemies jeeringly referred to him as "Meester" Bonillas.
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Bonillas had spent so much of his life in the United States that political enemies jeeringly referred to him as "Meester" Bonillas.
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Bonillas had spent so much of his life in the United States that political enemies jeeringly referred to him as "Meester" Bonillas.
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Bonillas had spent so much of his life in the United States that political enemies jeeringly referred to him as "Meester" Bonillas.
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Their beastly faces were shoved into mine, jeeringly — "Where is your husband?"
Murder in Mexico: an English family during the Revolution 2006
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Their beastly faces were shoved into mine, jeeringly — "Where is your husband?"
Murder in Mexico: an English family during the Revolution 2006
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Their beastly faces were shoved into mine, jeeringly — "Where is your husband?"
Murder in Mexico: an English family during the Revolution 2006
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The sto - ries were inaccurate, but no matter: her mates began jeeringly calling her "" Pilot B. ''
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