fleer > define

noun

• Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation.
  • usage: "fugitives from the sweatshops"
  • synonyms: fugitive, runaway
• Contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words.

verb

• To smirk contemptuously. .

• To make a wry face in contempt or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.
• (v.t.) To mock; to flout at.
• To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
• (n.) One who flees.