gibe
verb (used without object)
to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
gibingly
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a word derived from
gibe.
Example Sentences
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“So you’ve been feeling in your bones that something awful was going to happen,” he gibingly observed.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
They kidded me for being slow, dared me to race them, and gibingly assured me that they would wait for me on top and command the sun not to rise until I got there.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Enos B. (Enos Benjamin) Comstock
