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sleer (third-person singular simple present sleers, present participle sleering, simple past and past participle sleered)
- (obsolete) To mock or jeer.
- 1825, The Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register, volume 2, page 142:
- […] for were it possible that any one could bring us Father Adam's girdle and Mother Eve's apron, what laughing — what sleering — what mocking of their homely fashions would there be!
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