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But a reader named Robert was definitely a jeerer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2020

Hazel Bryan Massery, the jeerer, later apologized to Eckford.

From Time Magazine Archive

A scoffer by nature, a jeerer by temperament, a humbugger by education, the Parisian perpetually forces himself to accept nothing seriously, and to respect neither sex nor age nor glory.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William

And therefore an impertinent jeerer makes the whole company seem ill-natured and abusive, as being pleased with and consenting to the scurrility of the jeer.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

I've a great mind—I hear the jeerer snigger in his sleeve—but I repeat emphatically I have a great mind to come back.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 by Various