as in ridiculed
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
the unforgiving crowd jeered the magician when the final trick went awry
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Recent Examples of jeered
McIlroy has faced the brunt of the insults from spectators, who also jeered and yelled at his wife throughout the weekend.
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Chandelis Duster, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Hundreds of protestors jeered Netanyahu from the street outside the UN secretariat.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Republican Representative Barry Moore of Alabama left a town hall meeting through the back door on Thursday without delivering any closing remarks after being repeatedly booed and jeered by audience members.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Outside Union Station, as travelers waited quietly with their luggage to be picked up, several protesters jeered the half-dozen armed Guard members patrolling the area.
—Bernard Mokam, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Paul Heyman interrupted the dueling babyfaces as fans jeered him in French.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Chandelis Duster, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Hundreds of protestors jeered Netanyahu from the street outside the UN secretariat.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Republican Representative Barry Moore of Alabama left a town hall meeting through the back door on Thursday without delivering any closing remarks after being repeatedly booed and jeered by audience members.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Outside Union Station, as travelers waited quietly with their luggage to be picked up, several protesters jeered the half-dozen armed Guard members patrolling the area.
—Bernard Mokam, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Paul Heyman interrupted the dueling babyfaces as fans jeered him in French.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jeered
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Fear of being outed or being suspected or being made fun of, ridiculed, losing your standing.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
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Democrats ridiculed Vance’s performance.—
Daniel Bush,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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In another photo obtained by TMZ, Matthews also mocked Perry’s headline-making photo of her kissing the ground following her return to Earth.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
10 Nov. 2025
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Elites stirred up a now familiar moral panic about commerce corrupting letters and mocked Grub Street even as its writers built the first modern freelance economy and mass-print culture.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Jeered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeered. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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