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Scoff   /skɔf/   Listen
noun
Scoff  n.  
1.
Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. "With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts."
2.
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. "The scoff of withered age and beardless youth."


verb
Scoff  v. t.  To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at. "To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest."


Scoff  v. i.  (past & past part. scoffed; pres. part. scoffing)  To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; often with at. "Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray." "God's better gift they scoff at and refuse."
Synonyms: To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See Sneer.





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"Scoff" Quotes from Famous Books



... him in a vision world; but across the clearness of the vision now somehow obtruded the quiet cynicism, the genial scoff of the Senator's arguments, leaving fierce physical unrest and confused cross-currents of desire. A mist seemed to blurr all life. The hemlocks no longer chanted riotous gladness. There was a dirge to-night of futility, monotonous age-old eons of useless effort, the useless fall ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... people always grow splenetic— Why, goodness knows—at everything pathetic, And scoff it down. We all know how, of late, An unfledged, upstart undergraduate Presumed, with brazen insolence, to declare That "William ...
— Love's Comedy • Henrik Ibsen
... on it their serious ideas of international instruction. It was said that the Englishman takes his pleasures sadly; and the pleasure of despising foreigners is one which he takes most sadly of all. He comes to scoff and does not remain to pray, but rather to excommunicate. Hence in international relations there is far too little laughing, and far too much sneering. But I believe that there is a better way which largely consists of laughter; a form of friendship between nations which is actually ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton
... then, as the little Bible fell into her room. She took it up, noticed the red lines, and some precious promises they was scored under, and by degrees she found peace.—Eh, but William must know nothing of this; how he would scoff if he found his wife reading the Bible!—But what's this? William finds his missus quite a changed woman; she's twice the wife to him she was, and his home ain't like the same place. What's the ...
— True to his Colours - The Life that Wears Best • Theodore P. Wilson
... am waiting. What it is Leroy would never do?" The voice carried a scoff with it, the implication that his very presence had stricken ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine


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