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Jeeringly

adverb
1.
In a disrespectful jeering manner.  Synonyms: gibingly, mockingly.






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"Jeeringly" Quotes from Famous Books



... woolen rose had come loose on Rose's left shoe, and Barefoot had just knelt down to sew it on carefully, when Rose said, half ashamed of her own behavior, and yet half jeeringly: ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... So you come back at last, did you? You're a fine looking sight! [Then jeeringly.] I thought you'd beaten it for good on account of the disgrace ...
— Anna Christie • Eugene O'Neill

... age took hold of him roughly and laid him in the dust, jeeringly threw his hat to some high roof, spat on his new shoes. Even little girls, divining his abjectness, were prone to act rowdyish with him. And this especially made him suffer. He comprehended, somehow, that it was ignoble for a man child to be ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson



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