Synonyms:
jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing
Meaning: showing your contempt by derision
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe
Meaning: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
Usage examples
Mother won't let me go off far enough, so of course I don't do it, and then you all jeer at me.
Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.
The tax-collector could endure it no longer; he felt a desire to jeer at that beatitude, to make Anna Pavlovna feel that she had forgotten herself, that life was by no means so delightful as she fancied now in her excitement....
Perhaps we may even grow wicked later on, may be unable to refrain from a bad action, may laugh at men's tears and at those people who say as Kolya did just now, 'I want to suffer for all men,' and may even jeer spitefully at such people.