gibing

variants or jibing
present participle of gibe

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Verb
  • Authoritarians historically come for the comics first, and most recently under Putin, satirist Idrak Mirzalizade was jailed and deported for mocking Russian housing.
    Lizz Winstead, Time, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Brian stumbles back to his father’s tent, where an angry Simon takes his frustration over Uncle Mac’s mocking out on his son.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has also criticized President Obama’s Nobel Prize, ridiculing it during a 2020 rally.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Bianco has repeatedly made public comments ridiculing the relatives of the dead.
    Christopher Damien, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During the game in the first quarter, DeJean was called for an unsportsmanlike penalty for taunting.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Joe LaCava violated Rory’s airspace on the 18th green while taunting the same gallery that had teased his player, Patrick Cantlay, who had reportedly declined to wear a team hat to protest the lack of player compensation at such a big event.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Raging at the decision, the 29-year-old Medvedev sprinted across the court to remonstrate angrily with Allensworth and whipped up a jeering New York crowd.
    Manasi Pathak, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Miller spoke after videos circulated online of large crowds in the Columbia Heights neighborhood jeering federal officers in the streets.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As of this writing, there's no official trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 3, though AMC did drop a teaser teasing Lestat's life as a rock icon.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Emerald Fennell is teasing her film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which garnered significant attention following the release of the trailer earlier this month.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Gibing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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