as in ridiculing
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 jeering
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
It’s reported that some Knicks celebrators followed the Spurs back to their hotel, jeering and egging them.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2026
Some of the people in that group began taunting and jeering at the dancing men, some of whom were shirtless and wearing bathing suits.
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CBS News,
9 June 2026
Lestat, now a contemporary rock star who writes songs about living openly undead, demonstrates his contempt for Interview With the Vampire by jeering at audience members who might have read it.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
But not a word could be heard over the relentless jeering the Bay Area crowd directed toward her in the Valkyries’ 90-88 victory.
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Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
Or when their crowd were jeering Rogers?
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
For the remainder of the match, the crowd stayed vocal, cheering during Wave attacking build-ups and loudly jeering whenever a Bay FC player went down or a decision went against their team.
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Fernando Ramirez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 May 2026
In a particularly infamous incident, early in the strike, Art Babbitt started jeering when Walt drove across the picket line.
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Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
Graduates boo speakers for mentioning AI At multiple college graduation ceremonies around the country, graduates and audience members were seen booing and jeering speeches.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
It’s reported that some Knicks celebrators followed the Spurs back to their hotel, jeering and egging them.
—
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2026
Some of the people in that group began taunting and jeering at the dancing men, some of whom were shirtless and wearing bathing suits.
—
CBS News,
9 June 2026
Lestat, now a contemporary rock star who writes songs about living openly undead, demonstrates his contempt for Interview With the Vampire by jeering at audience members who might have read it.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
But not a word could be heard over the relentless jeering the Bay Area crowd directed toward her in the Valkyries’ 90-88 victory.
—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
Or when their crowd were jeering Rogers?
—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
For the remainder of the match, the crowd stayed vocal, cheering during Wave attacking build-ups and loudly jeering whenever a Bay FC player went down or a decision went against their team.
—
Fernando Ramirez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 May 2026
In a particularly infamous incident, early in the strike, Art Babbitt started jeering when Walt drove across the picket line.
—
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jeering
Adjective
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To get a sense of his whole deal, look no further than the half-mocking, half-earnest title of his latest album, Country!
Verb
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Speaking of which, when news broke Friday that much of the team’s equipment had been stolen, there was a nearly instantaneous social media ridiculing of the city.
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The internet absolutely let Clavicular have it, ridiculing the influencer with a barrage of memes.
Adjective
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Bolstered by a $10 million advertising campaign, the works were destined to be shown in a series of one hundred and fifty exhibitions and events intended to counter Americans’ derisive views of Mexico.
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Educators were fired for making insensitive comments about him on their personal social-media accounts; a firefighter in Toledo lost his job for posting a derisive eulogy on Facebook; various airline employees were suspended for disparaging Kirk online.
Verb
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The groove passes between them without ever quite resolving, each jolt followed by a pocket of silence that feels almost taunting.
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Neither incidents involved taunting players from the opposing team, and both of those techs have reportedly been rescinded.
Adjective
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There was also an August 2024 incident at Fenway when Duran hurled a homophobic slur at a heckling fan.
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Charles Barkley was once spitting mad at a heckling fan, and his expectoration wound up splashing on an 8-year-old girl.
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