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Example sentences for "jeer"

Lexicographically close words:
jedgmint; jedoch; jeedge; jeep; jeeps; jeered; jeering; jeeringly; jeers; jeest
  1. Others began to banter and jeer Bud, Jeff's crowd taunting him with malicious glee.

  2. A man they called Jeff was trying to jeer his neighbors into betting against a horse called Skeeter, and was finding them too cautious for his liking.

  3. The knowledge that I was an Infidel, combined with the secret inflammatory utterances of Labakan, created bitter prejudices against me, causing them to jeer and make matters exceedingly unpleasant generally.

  4. You jeer at my discomforture; you would send a pure, innocent woman to the guillotine, because you fear the consequence of her escape might be your removal from office.

  5. Then first a woman's voice was heard In jeer and laughter loud,"--p.

  6. I thought to myself, 'Jeer on, then;' and I went silently the way that he had pointed out to me.

  7. Then Folko looked around with a smile as he said, "And now none of you must jeer at me, if I stay at home for a short time with my timid wife.

  8. They began to jeer and insult him more than the other boys.

  9. As the baby grew up to boyhood, he was so petted and spoilt and clad in such finery that the village children would call him "Your Lordship," and jeer at him; and older people regarded Raicharan as unaccountably crazy about the child.

  10. The distance seems greater than ever to-day, poor woman, and you stop longer at the corners, where rude men jeer at you.

  11. Let those jeer who may, it is an abominable thing to feel a martyr, and look a clown, and poor Lavender's sensitive nature suffered acutely from the position.

  12. Why must they sneer and jeer because a girl wants to go in for the same training as themselves, especially when she has to make her own living afterwards?

  13. It may be that Schopenhauer was a little behind the age, for Hartmann has criticised him very much as a collegian on a holiday might jeer at the old-world manners of his grandfather.

  14. Already he had wrung his hands at the stars, and watched the distant future rise with its flouting jeer at the ills of man.

  15. Will the time come when children will jeer at us as erring fools and insane dreamers, scared by what did not exist, and amused by empty juggling?

  16. Be merciful, Manlius, and do not jeer at me.

  17. I trembled lest you might come only to mock me, only to play a cruel game with me, obtain the deepest secrets of my heart and then jeer at me for them.

  18. It always sounds like a jeer when they call me the King of kings.

  19. To jeer is stronger, and denotes the use of several sarcastic reflections.

  20. And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves.

  21. To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.

  22. A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.

  23. Defn: To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.

  24. To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.

  25. I should never regain the self-esteem which the sentiment of power now restores to me; I should feel as if the whole world could perceive and jeer at my meek humiliation.

  26. Tessa continued to dance and jeer till suddenly, finding that she was making no headway, a demon of temper entered into her.

  27. The blue jay laughed at the gate as they entered, and Monck looked up, "Jeer away, you son of a satyr!

  28. I must be known, as good at first; now jeer on, But do not anger me too impudently, The Rabbi will be mov'd then.

  29. I am betraid to one that will eternally laugh at me, Three of these rogues will jeer a horse to death.

  30. He liked to punish him, having suddenly perceived that this jeer was much more potent than any serious penalty.

  31. He looked at the young Dissenter with a jeer in his eyes.

  32. Those eyes were very light grey, prominent, with a jeer in them which was a very powerful moral instrument.

  33. But there are few more awful people than those ignoble spectators whose jeer arrests the moisture in the eye, and strangles the outcry on their neighbour's lip.

  34. When you begin to esteem and be proud of your children your life is naturally happier than when you scoff and jeer at them, and treat them as creatures of inferior mould to yourself.

  35. The only feasible motive for this second union seemed to be a desire on Mr. Copperhead's part to have something belonging to him which he could always jeer at, and in this way the match was highly successful.

  36. It would never occur to a Hindu to despise or jeer at a Mahommedan for spreading his cloth at the street corner and praying.

  37. I have never heard, no one has ever heard, one Oriental jeer at another for being religious, for obeying the commands of his faith.

  38. Only those jeer who do not know, and the Christians of the West jeer at the faiths of the East, at the simple natural religion of the people, because they know not what religion of the heart can be.

  39. We will jeer at a Mahommedan for praying, at a Hindu for observing his caste, at a Buddhist for raising his hands in honour to his pagoda, at a Chinaman for protecting the graves of his fathers.

  40. Instead of that, the lethargy seen in other counties was such as to justify the Salisburian jeer as to the circus.

  41. Adam took no notice of them, but they began to jeer and mock at him.

  42. But somehow or other the average man likes this new type better and does not want to jeer at him, but goes and buys his work instead.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jeer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affront; aspersion; atrocity; brickbat; chaff; comeback; contempt; contumely; crack; cut; despite; dig; dismiss; dump; enormity; fleer; flout; foolery; gibe; gird; heckle; hiss; humiliation; indignity; injury; insult; jape; jeer; jeering; jest; mock; mockery; offense; outrage; quip; rally; revile; ridicule; scoff; scout; slam; slap; sneer; swipe; taunt; twit