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Definition of "gibingly" []

  • With gibes; scornfully. (adverb)

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Use "gibingly" in a sentence
  • "All kind of harsh treatment being tried in vain, he no longer held any intercourse with the soldiers; he said the army was corrupted by the centurions; he sometimes gibingly called them tribunes of the people and Voleros."
  • ""You little fool!" he said half-angrily, half-gibingly; and thereafter they rode in silence -- she too mortified with shame and anger to venture upon words."
  • "For he had already been driven by egotistic governments from several of his commanding positions, and people were gibingly asking whether the new political gospel was being preached only as a foil for backslidings."
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