Definition of "fleering" [fleering]

• Present participle of fleer. (verb)

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• "The sneering and fleering seem fairly uniform MOs if not WMDs!"
• "Abderites been conversant with us, and but seen what [448] fleering and grinning there is in this age, they would certainly have concluded, we had been all out of our wits."
• "The saucy creature took a napkin, and dipt it in water, and with a fleering air, here, Miss; holding the wet corner to me."