fleer

Plural: fleers

Noun

• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
• contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words
• Mockery; derision.
• One who flees.

Verb

Verb Forms: fleered, fleering, fleers

• To mock or sneer with a look of contempt.
• to smirk contemptuously
• To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn
• To grin with an air of civility; to leer.

Examples

• After playing a seven-letter word, he couldn’t help but fleer at my paltry two-letter response.

Synonyms

fugitive, runaway, badger, bam, barrack, brock, bullyrag, chiack, deride, fleer, fligger, flite, geck, gibe, heckle, hound, jeer, mock, nip, outlaugh, poke borack, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt, twit

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