jeer
verb (used without object)
to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely.
jeeringly
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a word derived from
jeer.
Example Sentences
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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
The bullfight crowd in Lima, Peru, was jeeringly hostile.
From Time Magazine Archive
In recent years it has been jeeringly called an esthetic abortion, a municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale.
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
