jeeringly
- 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
Certainly luminal art is dazzling, far more mysterious than the jeeringly antisocial comment of pop, far more alive and sprightly than two dimensional op.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lacking first-line hotels, nightclubs and airport, it is often jeeringly called "the federal village."
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
