(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.
Snigger
Definition:
(n.) See Snicker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
(2) Almost 5,000 people commented beneath the article on the paper's website and many more did so on Twitter, with the majority of the comments sniggering at Brick's Zoolander-esque self-descriptions and the seven photos of her that the Mail published, all but begging for cruel comparisons to be made.
(3) Try saying “political debate in Britain” without sniggering.
(4) Also the way Blatter behaved, if you remember on stage, having a snigger and having a laugh at us.
(5) A political debate that revolves around sniggering at women’s body parts and smirks about gay hairdressers?
(6) Instead of sniggering at its misfortunes we should all be very worried indeed about its fate.
(7) There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do, nobody.” Asked about the nine women who have come forward to accuse him of the sexually predatory behavior he bragged about in a 2005 video leaked earlier this month , Trump insisted they were all either seeking “10 minutes of fame” or had been somehow orchestrated by Clinton’s campaign.
(8) In leftwing circles it is always felt there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings.” He was right too: in no other progressive European tradition do you find a similar reluctance to fly the flag.
(9) I struggle with the po-faced earnestness of my role: it's hard to "teach from the heart" when I'm sniggering about what they all look like with their bums in the air.
(10) The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.
(11) At this point, we expect the doorbell to ring and schadenfreude to leap out from behind the marble fountain before barging past us and sniggering at the gold toilet.
(12) The leading American neoconservative William Kristol recently wrote an article in which he says that browsing Orwell in an airport store reminded him once again why Democrats in the US may not be fit to govern: their "sniggering" attitude to American failure in Iraq shows that "they no longer even try to imagine what action and responsibility are like".
(13) [Sniggers for ages] What's that story about a house party at yours when Alex Ferguson turned up?
(14) In the end, however, Carter Page offered little except confusion and the occasional snigger, during a rambling presentation and an evasive question-and-answer session.
(15) We giggle at these cosmopolitan class-traitors and snigger at these soulful hipsters.
(16) There was much sniggering in rehearsals as all these posh public schoolboys tried to be working class.
(17) (Roars of approval from the Tory benches, suppliant sniggers from the sketchwriters.)
(18) Some of the younger contingent sniggered as he spoke.
(19) Straw has recently claimed that the report has played a key part in a "deep-seated cultural change" towards race in Britain: "The pervasive, open racism of the fifties and sixties, the pernicious, sniggering racism of the seventies, eighties and nineties is gone.
(20) I'd like to think a certain famous Argentinian football player who died yesterday is sniggering away up in heaven, laughing at how well his divine retribution has worked in the wake of the host nation foolishly not extending him the courtesy of a minute's silence before kick-off in tonight's match.