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Scoffingly adv. In a scoffing manner.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... similar character, and which were in the domain of the arts of design what the national epos and the national drama became not much later in the domain of poetry. We find named as painters, one Theodotus who, as Naevius scoffingly said, ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

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... Inspector!" he exclaimed scoffingly. "Pooh! some old fossil who'll come here—I'll tell you how! He'll ask for the responsible authorities. That's Simon Crood and Company. He'll hear all they've got to say. They'll say what they like. He'll examine their documents. The documents ...

— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

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... belief in Alec's innate nobility of character. Beliani likened him to Bayard, it is true, and Marulitch had scoffingly adopted the simile; but that was because each thought Bayard not admirable, but a fool. The somber history of the Kosnovian monarchy, a record of crass stupidity made lurid at times by a lightning gleam of passion, justified the belief that Alexis ...

— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy

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... in which he was universally held, Bryan de Blenkinsopp had never married. He was greatly admired, and yet, for a certain roughness and brutality in him, greatly feared, by many women, and he had been heard many a time scoffingly to say that only would he bring home a wife when he had found a woman possessed of gold sufficient to fill a chest so large that ten of his men might not be able to carry it into his castle. Brides of this ...

— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

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Words linked to "Scoffingly" : derisorily, mockingly, derisively