Citations:jeerleader

English citations of jeerleader

Noun: "one who criticizes, disparages, or teases"

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• 1966 — "Texas Twister", Time, 25 February 1966:

  With Star Marlon Brando as chief jeer-leader, the movie smugly points an accusing finger at all the wrong, wrong deeds done by precisely the right people....

• 1984 — "Sit-Down Rule Dampens Good Cheer", Miami Herald, 11 February 1984:

  "It's like we've been benched," said Karen Kennedy, a cheerleader-turned-jeerleader from Cooper City High School, who is booing a recent ruling that requires her to cheer from the bleachers during basketball games this season.

• 1985 — Dennis Duggan, "Many Rms Lousy Vu in Times Sq", Newsday, 2 October 1985:

  But that ghastly Aswan Dam or whatever it is that's masquerading as a new hotel in Times Square brings out the jeerleader in me.

• 1986 — Godfrey Sperling, "Liberals see scandal as chance to gain power", The Palm Beach Post, 19 December 1986:

  Instead, he becomes a leading jeerleader, calling on his fellow liberals to be as gleeful as they like over the antics and "pratfalls" of the Reagan team, feeling no shame.

• 1989 — "Ad Blizzard Pushes Winter Games", Deseret News, 29 October 1989:

  Olympic cheerleaders and jeerleaders are intensifying their campaigns to influence votes in the Nov. 7 Olympic referendum, still preparing radio, television and newspaper advertisements for airing 11 days before polls open.

• 1990 — "Davis Has Fans Hitting the Boos", Lexington Herald-Leader, 25 August 1990:

  Every time he fails to move runners over, every time he strikes out, the jeerleaders get to work.

• 1996 — Steve Milton, "Raptors' Prince of Thieves preaches gospel of pride", The Spectator, 11 March 1996:

  Veteran Alvin Robertson is the Raptors biggest cheerleader, but it sounds like it wouldn't take much to turn him into a jeerleader.

• 1999 — D. James Kennedy, Led by the Carpenter: Finding God's Purpose for Your Life!, Thomas Nelson, (1999), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  There are, it seems, too few cheerleaders in life — and too many jeerleaders.

• 1999 — Margot Hornblower, "The Battle in Seattle", Time, 22 November 1999:

  But scores of "radical jeerleaders" are practicing their choreographed cheers in church basements: "Smash the state/ Let's liberate!"

• 2000 — Myrna Kostash, The Next Canada: In Search of Our Future Nation, M&S (2000), →ISBN, page 231:

  The following day, the most controversial of anti-APEC events, the "Crash the Summit" rally and march organized by APEC Alert, attracted almost five thousand people (according to The Student Activist, two thousand according to Maclean's), who, led by "jeerleaders," marched across campus to the security fence "protecting" the APEC leaders from unseemly protest.

• 2007 — Colin Eglin, Crossing the Borders of Power: The Memoirs of Eglin, Jonathan Ball (2007), →ISBN, page 91:

  When three black children were admitted a few days later, the white parents decided on a boycott. Rumours were rife in the area that a young white Methodist parson was going to break they boycott by taking his two young daughters to school. As a result crowds, lead by rough-looking, coarse-sounding female jeerleaders, waited outside the parson's small painted timber house.

• 2009 — Joseph. P. Fried, "Following Up", The New York Times, 23 February 2003:

  He was cheerleader and jeerleader. "Beoootiful" and "Wunnerful" greeted sparkling Mets plays. […]

  But "Bum" and similar sentiments popped up when a Met, or a visiting player, made an error.

• 2009 — Andy Stone, "Andy Stone: A Stone's Throw", The Aspen Times, 3 June 2009:

  As soon as the nomination was announced, the right-wing cheerleaders (if that’s the proper term, perhaps "jeerleaders" would be better) spewed a wave of outrage.

• 2009 — Ken Brodnax, "Glast has been a wheeler and dealer in many ways", Odessa American, 11 August 2009:

  Plus everybody gets some playful needling with Glast as the head jeerleader.

• 2009 — "Blame Obama for convention-booking slump", Arizona Republic, 29 August 2009:

  Obama's caustic remarks about the way businesses spend their money combined with the negative emotion he stirred as jeerleader-in-chief brought businesses and cities relying on conventions to their knees.

• 2010 — Clarence Page, "Make BP pay for oil disaster, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2010:

  Conservative "jeerleaders" like Rush Limbaugh, who usually accuse Obama of meddling too much in the private sector, now complain that he didn't meddle in BP's operations sooner.

• 2011 — Mike London, "Legion Baseball Playoffs: High Point 6, Rowan 5", Salisbury Post, 17 July 2011:

  Tagging from third, Avery Rogers was deemed out after an accurate throw by Jonathan Bethea — a call that angered the jeerleaders in the bleachers.