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Meanings of jeerer in English

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mofeta

Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.

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        Examples for "scoffer"
        Examples for "scoffer"
        1
        He is a blasphemous scoffer, even with that which he declares holy.
        Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
        2
        Today this one scoffer, alone and unaided, was sufficient for his undoing.
        Something New
        3
        He was human, very human, but he was no scoffer or doubter.
        Yesterdays with Authors
        4
        Not a man present, believer or scoffer, but breathed a silent prayer.
        Where the Trail Divides
        5
        Three shall not enter Paradise-thescoffer, the hypocrite, and the slanderer.
        Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and ...
        1
        It was the laugh of the mocker, but he was mocking himself.
        The World for Sale, Volume 3.
        2
        Go-youfollow the mocker, or your hands would not be so dark.
        The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
        3
        From up the slope came a black-winged mocker's shrill cry of alarm.
        Knife of dreams
        4
        Fairholme, suspecting mockery, frowned, and Miss Wilson looked severely at the mocker.
        An Unsocial Socialist
        5
        Impudent academic mocker, university life has destroyed your last rag of reverence.
        Days Off, and Other Digressions
        1
        The vehicle cuts-off the rule-flouter as he makes a break for it.
        The South African
        2
        Cleopatra had become the personification of vice, flouter of every convention, breacher of every taboo.
        The Guardian
        3
        And now, you mocker and flouter of what may be my bitterest misfortune-why ,sir ,nopunishment is sharp enough for you!
        The Mississippi Bubble / How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and S...
        4
        This is sufficient reply to the unbelieving flouters at the moral law.
        The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
        5
        As the public opinion is most watchful of the cringing canvass, the flouters are the most numerous party.
        Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
        Usage of jeerer in English
        1
        Still, derision usually trumps enthusiasm; a jeerer has an easier time being thought intelligent than an acclaimer.
        The Guardian
        2
        One such jeerer (a most ingenious fellow) actually managed to set Vinculus's shoes on fire while Vinculus was speaking.
        Jonathan strange and mr norrell
        3
        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.
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        4
        Lack of agreement among practitioners as to what philosophy is meant to do "bolsters a philosophy-jeerer's charge that philosophy never can establish anything", she writes.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Link to video The jeerers have mounted a spirited defence online and across call-in radio programs.
        The Guardian
        6
        What good will all my companions, fellow-jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me?
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
        7
        Then Blackbeard stepped quietly forward and ordered eight of the jeerers to be strung up and flogged.
        Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter
        8
        Starkad replied that he used in old days to chastise jeerers, and that the insolent had never insulted him unpunished.
        The Danish History, Books I-IX
        Translations for jeerer
        Jeerer through the time