jeer
verb (used without object)
to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely.
is jeering
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present progressiveof jeer (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The key to trolling is jeering indifference: You win because you don’t care.
From Slate
There is jeering at the misfortunes of others.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Knudsen having finished his job, is jeering at Pickle, who had promised to be first.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
Even to this day when I awake from some bad dream, it is a dream that I am wearing crazy breeches and all the world is jeering at me.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by James J. (James John) Davis
No one believes it, and everybody is jeering at Tychkov for having debased himself to interrogate a drink-maddened old beggar-woman.
From The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
