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fleer

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5 lettersPronunciation /flɪə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eeflrStarts with FEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. to smirk contemptuously

Word origin

Possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål flire (“to giggle”), Jutish Danish flire.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • [I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way[.]
  • […] 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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