fleering

scorn; derision

Noun

  1. scorn; derision
    • Your private whispers and your broad fleerings. - c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...

Forms

fleerings

Derived

fleeringly

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of fleer