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Jee


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) See Gee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The family is suing the airline for breach of contract, saying the deeply troubled carrier failed in its contractual responsibility to deliver Jee to his destination.
  • (2) One woman, however, successfully gave birth, Jee said.
  • (3) Giving evidence to the commission's first public evidence session, in Seoul last August, Jee explained the camp guards' policy towards women who returned to North Korea pregnant.
  • (4) Gary Chong, a lawyer for Jee’s relatives, said the suit was filed in a Malaysian court on Friday.
  • (5) "Richard Blackwood had his own show, then Jocelyn Jee Esien had hers [Little Miss Jocelyn].
  • (6) Among the desperate and appalling chronicle of horrors presented across 372 pages in the full UN report into rights abuses in North Korea , the chilling testimony of a young woman called Jee Heon, sent to a prison camp after being returned from China, stands out.
  • (7) Jee continued: "The mother was begging, 'I was told that I would not be able to have the baby, but I actually got lucky and got pregnant, so let me keep the baby, please forgive me', but this agent kept beating this woman, the mother who just gave birth.
  • (8) The suit was filed by lawyers on behalf of the two young sons of Jee Jing Hang, who was on board the plane when it disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board.
  • (9) A new compound, penta-acetyl geniposide [(Ac)5-GP], was obtained from modified extract of Gardenia Fructus (San-jee-chee in Chinese).
  • (10) President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “embarrassed” that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee Ick-joo, on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
  • (11) A new compound, penta-acetyl geniposide ((Ac)5-GP), was obtained from modified extract of Gardenia fructus (San-Jee-Chee in Chinese).

Jeer


Definition:

  • (n.) A gear; a tackle.
  • (n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
  • (n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
  • (2) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
  • (3) "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he told a jeering audience at Columbia University in New York during his UN visit.
  • (4) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
  • (5) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
  • (6) "I found that most of the MPs just sat jeering at everybody and not actually listening to what people were saying – just what my image of parliament is in my head," said one participant.
  • (7) Behind the chancellor, Tories kept up a wall of noise, laughing and jeering at the misery guts on the benches opposite.
  • (8) Goodes, who has been in the headlines all week after being the target of much jeering from Hawthorn fans during a rematch of the 2014 grand final, was again targeted vocally and loudly at the SCG.
  • (9) Dundee’s Harkins then slashed wide in the fourth of four added minutes before the final whistle brought jeers raining down on the home side.
  • (10) And take their boos and jeers as confirmation that it’s on to something.
  • (11) in the manner of John Major as the Tories jeered some more.
  • (12) Winmar, who played 251 AFL games, made a stand against racism in 1993 when he lifted his jumper and pointed to his skin after being jeered by Collingwood fans at Victoria Park.
  • (13) It was all very well for erstwhile broadsheet newspaper readers to jeer "Who cares?"
  • (14) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
  • (15) The police said they had no evidence of the incident, captured on camera by a jeering mob, but opened investigations to find out if the men were "sodomites".
  • (16) Burkhardt encountered sharp criticism from Quebec politicians and jeers from Lac-Mégantic residents while making his first visit to the town.
  • (17) (There is jeering, because the Lib Dems say this is there policy.)
  • (18) Police officer Thet Lwin, speaking at the scene, said the fire was triggered by an electrical short "and not due to any criminal activity" but was jeered by the crowd for saying so.
  • (19) Remember the Trump supporter who disagreed with everything Trump said but explained: “He’s just my kind of guy.” Like it or jeer, these are the people who now win elections.
  • (20) Sterling’s omission from the starting XI had created the pre-match buzz and the substitute was jeered by plenty of travelling supporters by the tunnel in the corner as he returned to the dressing room after the warm-up.

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