fleering

• “The sneering and fleering seem fairly uniform MOs if not WMDs!”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “Abderites been conversant with us, and but seen what [448] fleering and grinning there is in this age, they would certainly have concluded, we had been all out of our wits.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “The saucy creature took a napkin, and dipt it in water, and with a fleering air, here, Miss; holding the wet corner to me.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “So I went and sat me down in the window, and she took her place at the upper end of the table; and her saucy Jackey, fleering at me most provokingly, sat down by her.”

  Pamela

• “The moment it was dusk she pulled down the window-shades all the shades, flush with the sill, but beyond them she felt moist fleering eyes.”

  Main Street

• “She fleering in his face, and shaking her head at him, replyed.”

  The Decameron

• “Christ stops her fleering mouth with the dung of her own unchaste conversation, charging her with that infamous sort of life she had hitherto lived: q.d. "Thou, for thy impudent adulteries, hast suffered divorce from five husbands already; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband, but an adulterer.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “_ He, he, he, he, a Curse of your fleering Jests -- Yet, however ill I succeeded, I'll venture the same Wager, she does not value thee a spoonful of Snuff -- Nay more, though you enjoyn'd her Silence to me, you'll never make her speak to the Purpose with your self.”

  The Busie Body

• “Or when we giue a mocke with a scornefull countenance as in some smiling sort looking aside or by drawing the lippe awry, or shrinking vp the nose; the Greeks called it _Micterismus_, we may terme it a fleering frumpe, as he that said to one whose wordes he beleued not, no doubt Sir of that.”

  The Arte of English Poesie

• “This fleering frumpe is one of the Courtly graces of _hicke the scorner.”

  The Arte of English Poesie

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