Antonyms for gibes

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : jahyb

Phonetic Transcription : dʒaɪb

Definition of gibes

Origin : "agree, fit," 1813, of unknown origin, perhaps a figurative extension of earlier jib, gybe (v.) "shift a sail or boom" (see jib). OED, however, suggests a phonetic variant of chime, as if meaning "to chime in with, to be in harmony." Related: Jibed; jibes; jibing.

noun ridicule
verb ridicule

Example sentences :

But we must make allowance for these girds and gibes at Democracy, of which we have given a specimen.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Whereat Socrates: When will you have done with your gibes, Callias?
Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon

But they answered that they came not for gibes but for tears, that Balder might be saved.
Extract from : « Told by the Northmen: » by E. M. [Ethel Mary] Wilmot-Buxton

The giantess is kept there by the gibes of Atli till the daybreak.
Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker

But the man continued, in season and out of season, to make him the butt of his gibes.
Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.

Their tone of pity cut him, and left him raw to the gibes of his opponents.
Extract from : « A Spoil of Office » by Hamlin Garland

But the gibes of Newall and Parfitt were still rankling in his breast.
Extract from : « The Hero of Garside School » by J. Harwood Panting

Took all their gibes and "dev'ling" quietly, and for the most part silently.
Extract from : « "Run To Seed" » by Thomas Nelson Page

What to her were the calumnies—the gibes—that were heaped upon him?
Extract from : « The White Chief » by Mayne Reid

Not even Yorick, with his “gibes” and “flashes of merriment”—not even he is spared.
Extract from : « A Tramp's Wallet » by William Duthie

Synonyms for gibes

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