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jeeringly

jeeringly adverb: in a jeering manner.

Adverb

jeeringly (comparative more jeeringly, superlative most jeeringly)

  1. In a jeering manner.
    • You shall find by common experience how your superstitious false worshipers slight the Word of God; they are above it, they speak jeeringly of the Scripture and of warrants from Gods Word; Oh you must do nothing but you must have Scripture for it: They cry up Fathers and antiquity, and such and...1643, Jeremiah Burroughs, An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea, London, Volume 2, Chapter 5 Verse 2, p. 362
    • […] they turned their Anger into ridiculing the Man, and his Sorrow for his Wife and Children; taunted him with want of Courage to leap into the great Pit, and go to Heaven, as they jeeringly express’d it, along with them, adding some very profane, and even blasphemous Expressions.1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al, page 78

Forms of jeeringly

comparativemore jeeringly
superlativemost jeeringly

Origin of jeeringly

From jeering + -ly.

Questions about jeeringly

What does jeeringly mean?
Jeeringly means in a jeering manner.
What part of speech is jeeringly?
Jeeringly is an adverb.

Words near jeeringly in the dictionary

  1. jeerer
  2. jeerers
  3. jeerest
  4. jeereth
  5. jeering
  6. jeeringly
  7. jeerings
  8. jeerleader
  9. jeerleaders
  10. jeers
  11. jeery

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