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# jeering

«jeering» in Mova's school dictionary: **shouting or laughing at someone in a rude, mocking way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (-ing form of jeer); adjective (jeering); noun (jeering, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Jeering is shouting or laughing at someone in a rude, mocking way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#m1)

2) A jeering voice or crowd mocks someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, sport reports and kindness lessons. It tells the reader a crowd or person is mocking. Phrases: «jeering crowd», «a jeering laugh».

### examples

- The jeering crowd made the player angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x1)
- Stop jeering at your sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x2)
- We heard jeering from the back of the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x3)
- His jeering laugh hurt her feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x4)
- The jeering stopped when the teacher came in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x5)
- Fans were warned that jeering is not allowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x6)
- He bought a dozen copper lamps, put them into a basket, and went to the palace, crying: "New lamps for old!" followed by a jeering crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/#x7)

### note

Base verb: jeer. Opposite: cheering.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jeering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.