Fleer

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  • intransitive verb. To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision.
  • noun. A taunting, scoffing, or derisive look or gibe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks.
  • noun. A grin of civility; a leer.
  • noun. One who flees.
  • To grin in mockery; make a wry face in contempt; hence, to gibe; sneer: as, to fleer and flout.
  • To grin with an air of civility; leer.
  • To mock; jeer at.
  • noun. A dialectal (Scotch) variant of floor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.
  • To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
  • transitive verb. To mock; to flout at.
  • noun. One who flees.
  • noun. A word or look of derision or mockery.
  • noun. A grin of civility; a leer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. one who flees
  • verb. To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
  • noun. contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words
  • verb. to smirk contemptuously
  • Word Usage
    "The communities both in North and South Carolina, law enforcement, have come together in this case, and right now, we are being aided by the United States Marine Corps, helicopters from Cherry Point, and also the North Carolina highway patrol, with special heat-seeking devices known as fleer units, and we have ground teams ready that are and on the ground ready to assist in the location, hopefully and prayerfully of Miss Donovan."
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