LEONATO. Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me: I speak not like a dotard nor a fool, As, under privilege of age, to brag What I have done being young, or what would do, Were I not old.
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Fleer
//flɪə//
Synonyms for "fleer" (134 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- усмихвам се презрително verb (to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn)
Czech
1 entries- vysmívat se verb (to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn)
Russian
1 entries- ухмыля́ться verb (to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn)
Swedish
1 entries- hånle verb (to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
[I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way[.]
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In the time of popery, before the gospel came amongst us, we went to burials with weeping and wailing, as though there were no God: but since the gospel came unto us, I have heard say, that in some places they go with the corses grinning and flearing, as though they went to a bear-baiting;[…]
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[…] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer, And guilty shame, and servile fear, Envy, and cruelty, and pride, Will in your tainted heart preside.
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