Jeers Definition

Jeers Sentence Examples

• He would prefer to die than hear the jeers of people rejoicing at his downfall.

• Troops were sent to pacify the country, and in one village a soldier found a copy of Moses' laws and tore it up in public with jeers and blasphemies.

• On the 8th the festival of the Supreme Being was solemnized, Robespierre acting as pontiff amid the outward deference and secret jeers of his colleagues.

• First publication of this scheme brought the usual jeers.

• At the recent Likud conference, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was greeted by jeers and shouts from hundreds of his former ideological fellow-travelers.