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Some have hailed this as the imaginative and enlightened "re-education" of offenders, while more than one newspaper column has jeered that to make it in cinema these days, one has first to commit a crime.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013

For twenty years Mr. Mencken has jeered, snorted and chortled at the American newspaper man.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been painting just as well these last five years and all the world has jeered; they were still jeering the day before yesterday, but now!

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August

Many's the time he has jeered at me when he passed; and everyone has been afraid to put a hand on him because his father is a bad man.

From Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast by Webster, Frank V.

The world has jeered at the possibility of such friendships from its earliest age; and yet they have always existed,—one of the most exquisite and delicate of earthly ties.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian