He caricatured a benefactor to his face, nor ever dreamed of sparing friend or foe his light, pointed jibes which excoriated the surface of the smoothest vanity.
Allowing that Terrae Filius was ever a caricaturist, and that all his tirades and jibes must be taken cum grano salts, nevertheless the picture he draws of the Bucks of the first head is a very true one.
If their hearts were not as light, their faces gave no sign; and their tongues flung back the good-humored jibes of their fellows in Spanish as fluent as any they heard.
I felt gloomy and desolate, and for my uncompanionable humor received sundry playful jibes or open-rebukes from my friends.
All the leisure which his school life left him was passed in the company of subversive writers whose jibes and violence of speech set up a ferment in his brain before they passed out of it into his crude writings.
His father's jibes at the Bantry gang leaped out of his memory.
One or two began to fret but the jibes of the others soon had all in good humor.
His challenges were laughed at; the jibes and jokes became more and more insulting.
Here are the stocks in which offenders were locked while they suffered jibes from passing tormentors.
He was an object of derision to this thing of jibes and sneers.
He came before long to laugh with them and to take theirjibes as they were meant--good-naturedly.
He is enabled to do this because the ostracism, jibes and criticism with which other types are finally cowed, have little effect upon him.
And yet she clung To my protecting presence in her wrong; And once, when Manton's jibes made bitterer play, Implored me with appealing eyes to stay.
The racon takes four okes of grapes to make one oke; the jibes five.
After it has cooled it is again returned into the pan and boiled--if for the racon for three hours, if for the jibes four.
Thou art not at all after my mind, thou goest about with jibes and jeers, with scorn and mocking; but that is not my turn of mind.
He was noisy and boisterous, and given to jibes and mocking.
I will not bear her jibes and jeers any longer;" and he was so quarrelsome about this, that he would not be at the feast unless she were driven away.
Some writers of literary English seem to enjoy flinging jibes at dialect on the assumption that any deviation from the standard speech must be due to ignorance, if not to vulgarity besides.
Come now, Priscilla, spare me thine old-time jibes and puzzlements and show thyself true womanly, and mine own honest friend.
The nucleus of all their thoughts and actions was love, whether they made it the subject of wanton jibes or of strains of tender longing.
Any one having good or bad reasons of his own for disposing of his time in a manner different from what is customary has to contend against the gossip and the jibes and mockery of all.
Sallies and jibes flew thick and fast between the rival crews, but the two skippers steered and remained silent.
The rough talk of the half-deck and the cutting jibes of his shipmates no longer wounded his sensibilities.
She never realized how much her jibes stung her husband.
When the train reached the Gare de l'Est, in spite of their jibes at his Puritanism, he left them.
Serlo, indeed, flattered every individual; but his cutting jibes against the whole were often circulated and repeated.
She even encouraged him to his accustomed jibes at her Connemara speculation, and personally conducted him to stall No.
What cared we, in our home, for the jibesand sneers and falsehoods without?
Laughing, and sending forth theirjibes and jeers, And doing deeds which Infamy might own.
Whilst her jibes and jeers were continuing, it was my pleasure to look at poor Magny and see how HE bore them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jibes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
