(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.
Mockery
Definition:
(n.) The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
(n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
(n.) Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
Example Sentences:
(1) These faux pas by the Institutional Revolutionary party candidate, famous for his good looks and telenovela star wife, at the international literary festival in Guadalajara, left Mexico's social and mainstream media buzzing with mockery.
(2) Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | Letters Read more My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.
(3) In announcing this sabotage, ministers make a mockery of their own supposed core objectives: local empowerment within a "big society"; massive job creation – via a green industrial revolution – to counter austerity-related job losses; desire to be the greenest government ever ; tackling global warming, and so on.
(4) The royals’ habitual secrecy makes a mockery of the accountability we expect of people who receive public money.
(5) There is strikingly little support for the Republican contender whose gaffe-prone visit to Europe in July won him few friends and who regularly turns European welfarism and "entitlement societies" into points of mockery in his campaign speeches.
(6) There was quite a bit of international mockery about our supposedly all-encompassing "sex by surprise" laws after the rape accusations against Julian Assange .
(7) Komoroske and a neighbour researched the new arrival's chequered past, the basis of which, she said, made a mockery of the decision to award him residency in New Zealand.
(8) One newspaper declared that Mohamed had "made a mockery" of the government's claim to protect the public, while another offered a reward for information leading to his capture: "£25k to Find the Burka Bunker" .
(9) The mockery continued when he noted semi-automatics had only two purposes: to kill people, and to let their owners go to a shooting range, "yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel".
(10) No sooner had Conway begun to insist in interviews that “ the pivot that he’s made is on substance ”, than he proceeded to make a mockery of her claims.
(11) There was also some mockery on social media as tweeters focused on Miliband’s repeated use of anecdotes involving personal conversations he had with ordinary voters, and in particular his double reference to Gareth, a software developer, who turned out to work for a London based IT firm and is a former Lib Dem supporter considering switching to Labour.
(12) It is the ultimate representation of spectacle, a mockery of history and tradition, which serves and caters for tourists and expatriates.
(13) These cuts are a long way from the average pay increases recently experienced by FTSE 100 company chief executives or the bonuses of many senior financial service executives, and make a mockery of the claim that "we are all in this together".
(14) And this cannot logically happen, because as Willem says, there is one thing that no establishment, no dogma, religion or ideology, can bear: mockery.
(15) This, perhaps, is because he is so switched on to self-mockery.
(16) Amrit Singh, the ACLU lawyer who argued the case said: "The decision to not release the photographs makes a mockery of President Obama's promise of transparency and accountability."
(17) In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
(18) Another theory, which goes back in some form to ancient Greek philosophy, argues that all laughter is an expression of superiority: it is, in other words, always an aggressive response, a form of derision or mockery (laughing at, rather than with).
(19) The steady feed of rambling selfie videos have prompted widespread mockery and scorn and in some cases have clearly further distracted from the plight of Harney County ranchers whom the militia claim to be backing.
(20) Reedie said the official was able to test the athlete but only after being told by security officials that 30 days’ notice would be required in future, which “makes a mockery of the idea of no-notice testing”.