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Jeers

Jeers \Jeers\, n. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b) .

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jeers

n. (plural of jeer English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: jeer)

Usage examples of "jeers".

His smile dropped at a sudden chorus of jeers from the crowd outside the court.

A fresh bellow of jeers followed his words and Julius felt suddenly dizzy with reaction.

The man didn't even have style enough to let him die without a few more jeers and taunts.

Jharkheld said when he completed the story and let the howls and jeers from the crowd die away.

Sharky protested, sounding confident that his cooperation had allowed him to escape the worst of the carnival, but the jeers of the crowd all but drowned out his voice.

Some of the men on the other side of the fire saw the tender gesture and greeted it with a chorus of jeers and whistles.

Some jeers greeted the barrage's inaccuracy, but the officers and sergeants shouted for silence.

They pursued the beaten fugitives with jeers, volleys of musket fire and salvoes of rockets.

They had been whipped, and the distant jeers of the Tippoo's men rubbed salt into their wounds.