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The musical, which won the 2022 Tony Award for best original score, is unapologetically — intentionally, proudly, joyfully, sometimes jeeringly — revisionist.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2023

Many branded him a hypocrite and jeeringly called him an “overseas patriot.”

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

In 1937, however, when the Nazis staged their exhibition of "degenerate art" in Munich, Nolde's weirdly glowing religious paintings were jeeringly displayed.

From Time Magazine Archive

So farmers turn to combine cutters, also jeeringly known as "wheaties," who hire themselves out, along with their families and their combines.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stopped, facing the strip; and remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding