Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds.
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He is a blasphemous scoffer, even with that which he declares holy.
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Today this one scoffer, alone and unaided, was sufficient for his undoing.
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He was human, very human, but he was no scoffer or doubter.
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Not a man present, believer or scoffer, but breathed a silent prayer.
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Three shall not enter Paradise-thescoffer, the hypocrite, and the slanderer.
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Still, derision usually trumps enthusiasm; a jeerer has an easier time being thought intelligent than an acclaimer.
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One such jeerer (a most ingenious fellow) actually managed to set Vinculus's shoes on fire while Vinculus was speaking.
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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.
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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.
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Link to video The jeerers have mounted a spirited defence online and across call-in radio programs.
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The vehicle cuts-off the rule-flouter as he makes a break for it.
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Cleopatra had become the personification of vice, flouter of every convention, breacher of every taboo.
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And now, you mocker and flouter of what may be my bitterest misfortune-why ,sir ,nopunishment is sharp enough for you!
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This is sufficient reply to the unbelieving flouters at the moral law.
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As the public opinion is most watchful of the cringing canvass, the flouters are the most numerous party.
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It was the laugh of the mocker, but he was mocking himself.
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Go-youfollow the mocker, or your hands would not be so dark.
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From up the slope came a black-winged mocker's shrill cry of alarm.
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Fairholme, suspecting mockery, frowned, and Miss Wilson looked severely at the mocker.
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Impudent academic mocker, university life has destroyed your last rag of reverence.
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One mocker was killed then; the speckle-faced mocker that could repeat messages verbatim.
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She also surrendered to the weakness of self-pity, that craven mocker of self-respect.
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But they think me cold, and a mocker with terrible jests.
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From a mocker, the child had been temporarily transformed into an unwilling hero-worshipper.
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The mocker-nut, pignut, and hairy hickory, perhaps adapt themselves best to sandy soils.
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The mocker can crow or cackle like the chickens, or mew like the cat.
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For a while this mocker of the sun is dead.
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Liszt calls Chopin "a fine connoisseur in raillery and an ingenious mocker."
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It is not vanity, as the mocker too hastily thinks.
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The minister broke in, his voice mounting shrilly, Nay, not so, thou subtle mocker.
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In addition, they would transmit the message to whichever mocker their master's thought directed.
