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# jeeringly

«jeeringly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a mocking, unkind way, to make someone look silly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

In a mocking, unkind way, to make someone look silly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeeringly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a villain or an animal speaks jeeringly to make fun of someone

### examples

- "You'll never catch me!" he said jeeringly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeeringly/#x1)
- The crowd laughed jeeringly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeeringly/#x2)
- She waved jeeringly at her brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeeringly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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