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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What good will all my companions, fellow-jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me?
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Then Blackbeard stepped quietly forward and ordered eight of the jeerers to be strung up and flogged.
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Starkad replied that he used in old days to chastise jeerers, and that the insolent had never insulted him unpunished.