Jeering

jeering
    adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule;
           "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking
           smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn:
           {derisive}, {gibelike}, {jeering}, {mocking}, {taunting}]
    n 1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: {jeer}, {jeering},
         {mockery}, {scoff}, {scoffing}]
    

Jeering \Jeer"ing\, a.
   Mocking; scoffing. -- n. A mocking utterance. --
   {Jeer"ing*ly}, adv.
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Jeer \Jeer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jeered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Jeering}.] [Perh. a corrup. of cheer to salute with cheers,
   taken in an ironical sense; or more prob. fr. D. gekscheren
   to jeer, lit., to shear the fool; gek a fool (see 1st {Geck})
   + scheren to shear. See {Shear}, v.]
   To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with
   mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as,
   to jeer at a speaker.
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         But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer. --Spenser.

   Syn: To sneer; scoff; flout; gibe; mock.
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71 Moby Thesaurus words for "jeering":
      affront, aspersion, atrocity, banter, bantering, booing, brickbat,
      catcalling, chaffing, contempt, contumely, cut, derision, derisive,
      derisory, despite, dump, enormity, fleering, flippancy, flippant,
      flout, flouting, fooling, gibe, grinning, hissing, hooting,
      humiliation, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, joshing, kidding,
      leering, levity, mock, mockery, mocking, offense, outrage, panning,
      put-down, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing,
      ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoff, scoffing, scurrility, smart,
      smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking,
      sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunt, taunting,
      teasing, twitting, uncomplimentary remark