Jeer
verb
To shout or laugh at someone or something in a mocking or unkind way.
The crowd jeered when the opposing team walked onto the field.
Often appears as...
- jeer at someone
- crowd jeers
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Disapproving
noun
A rude and mocking remark.
He had to endure the jeers of the crowd after his mistake.
Often appears as...
- endure jeers
- jeers of the crowd
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To shout or laugh at someone or something in a mocking or unkind way.
The crowd jeered when the opposing team walked onto the field.
Often appears as...
- jeer at someone
- crowd jeers
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A rude and mocking remark.
He had to endure the jeers of the crowd after his mistake.
Often appears as...
- endure jeers
- jeers of the crowd
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Jeering is always rude and shows disapproval or contempt.
The students started to jeer at the error in the teacher's calculations.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Behavior
Jeering often happens in groups, making it feel more intense.
At the soccer match, the whole stand jeered at the referee's decision.
Pro Tip 3/3Sports Context
Jeering is common at sports events to show support or disapproval.
Fans jeered loudly every time the rival team attempted a shot.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Jeering is always rude and shows disapproval or contempt.
The students started to jeer at the error in the teacher's calculations.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Behavior
Jeering often happens in groups, making it feel more intense.
At the soccer match, the whole stand jeered at the referee's decision.
Pro Tip 3/3Sports Context
Jeering is common at sports events to show support or disapproval.
Fans jeered loudly every time the rival team attempted a shot.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Jeering is always rude and shows disapproval or contempt.
The students started to jeer at the error in the teacher's calculations.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Behavior
Jeering often happens in groups, making it feel more intense.
At the soccer match, the whole stand jeered at the referee's decision.
Pro Tip 3/3Sports Context
Jeering is common at sports events to show support or disapproval.
Fans jeered loudly every time the rival team attempted a shot.
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and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again. Now, that's a very extreme example, obviously, in the case of the chain gang, but actually almost everywhere in the world
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Wealthier patrons watched the stage from covered balconies while poorer people paid a penny to take in the show from an open-air section called the pit. Talking, jeering, and cheering was common during performances. There are even accounts of audiences throwing furniture when plays were flops.
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Trial by Oil PIPE National...
this fear is apparent all put your hand in you say you are not guilty put your hand in face to face with the oil and the jeering crowd
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Everything you think you...
and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again. Now, that's a very extreme example, obviously, in the case of the chain gang, but actually almost everywhere in the world
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Why should you read...
Wealthier patrons watched the stage from covered balconies while poorer people paid a penny to take in the show from an open-air section called the pit. Talking, jeering, and cheering was common during performances. There are even accounts of audiences throwing furniture when plays were flops.
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Trial by Oil PIPE National...
this fear is apparent all put your hand in you say you are not guilty put your hand in face to face with the oil and the jeering crowd
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Quote examples
Fabrizio Moreira
Ecuadorian Politician
The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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Stephen Vincent Benet
American Poet
It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.
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Gary McCord
American Athlete
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Jinder Mahal
Canadian Athlete
Definitely, as an Indian, I'm seen as an outsider, and definitely, the jeers come from that. But I enjoy it; I even encourage it. Whatever noise they make when I'm in the ring, it motivates me, drives me to do better.
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Sal Albanese
American Politician
You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Scott Spencer
American Author
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
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Edward Carpenter
English Activist
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
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Alfredo Di Stefano
Argentinian Footballer
The fans are always right. If they whistle or jeer someone, it's because they want him to be effective.
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Zinedine Zidane
French Athlete
When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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Fabrizio Moreira
Ecuadorian Politician
The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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Stephen Vincent Benet
American Poet
It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.
Quote examples
Gary McCord
American Athlete
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Jinder Mahal
Canadian Athlete
Definitely, as an Indian, I'm seen as an outsider, and definitely, the jeers come from that. But I enjoy it; I even encourage it. Whatever noise they make when I'm in the ring, it motivates me, drives me to do better.
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Sal Albanese
American Politician
You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Scott Spencer
American Author
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
Quote examples
John Updike
American Novelist
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
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Edward Carpenter
English Activist
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
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Alfredo Di Stefano
Argentinian Footballer
The fans are always right. If they whistle or jeer someone, it's because they want him to be effective.
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Zinedine Zidane
French Athlete
When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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