jeer

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1. jeer - Noun

2. jeer - Verb

Meaning

A gear; a tackle.

An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.

To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.

To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.

A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.

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a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat. E. E. Cummings

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife. Joaquin Miller

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. Martin Luther

It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty. Robert Silverberg

Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him; - That is, when they remember he still exists. Who. you ask, is this fellow? James Branch Cabell

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path-he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. Epictetus

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