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scoff Verb

— If you scoff at someone or at something, you laugh at someone or something with contempt. — If you scoff your food, you eat it very quickly.

scoff

— verb (= jeer) laugh at with contempt and derision The crowd jeered at the speaker — verb (= flout) treat with contemptuous disregard flout the rules — noun (= jeer) showing your contempt by derision

Synonyms scoff synonyms

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scoff English » English

mock jeer sneer gibe flout ridicule mockery scorn deride taunt gobble scoffing make fun of jibe fleer derision barrack wolf raillery jeering hoot gorge devour boo abuse twit tease target sneer at seize scron scarf satirize sarcasm roast ridiculing revile rally rail quiz quip poke fun plunder pish pig out persiflage nosh meal making fun of make fun

Topics scoff topics

What do people use scoff to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say

Criticize
Social behavior Behavior Admire someone

Despise someone
Social behavior Religion

Irreligion

Conjugation scoff conjugation

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scoff · verb

Examples scoff examples

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Simple sentences

Outsiders tend to scoff at Esperanto as an idealistic waste of time.
I scoff at it.

Movie subtitles

I know you scoff at the Allenby curse. but ever since my parents were killed. I've had the strangest dreams.
One can always scoff, but what else can a tourist do but weep?
I do not question or scoff at the miracles of the Lord as do ye of little faith.
Not only samurai, but townspeople, too, will scoff at his wavering.
Don't scoff at me, you rascal.
Better hurry, or he'll scoff the lot.
Oh, scoff all you like, Herod, but judge for yourself.
OK, scoff.
You can scoff, Lister.
Then you stretch it out under a hot light bulb, then you get within dashing distance of the latrine, and you scoff it right down.
Did they scoff the whole smorgasbord?
Make sure he doesn't scoff them all, they're his favorites.
Christopher can scoff, but I know how hard you've been praying.
Well, I'm no stranger to the land of scoff.
Scoff your coffee while ye may, turn up your toes. call it a day.
Now, before you scoff, just take a look at some of these.
You can scoff if you wanna, Grandpa, but when I go down to that ballpark this morning, it's gonna be one, two, three strikes, you're out.
The many who'll come to scoff and the few who'll come to pray.
Scoff if you like, but mark my word.
They scoff at you because they can't destroy you.
Let them scoff.
You ever scoff at me again, I'll kill you!
Scoff if you will, but Grandpa Hook's blood runs in my veins.
Yes, but her yabos scoff at gravity.
Hey, my yellow moon's nothing to scoff at.
No, no, no. Don't scoff. Listen.
I remember that right down here we used to scoff the sacramental wine.
Don't scoff at the poor girl's misfortunes.
This is more of the same thing. Pushing away the scoff is a recognised sign of love.
Come on, girl, where's my scoff?
He hoovered in the scoff like a team of horses after a hard day.
Scoff all you like.
Don't scoff.
There was a hint of scoff there.
Get some scoff on, get a brew going.
You scoff?
Sick of people who don't appreciate their blessings. Sick of those who scoff at the suffering of others.
You drift off, I'll have a scoff.

News and current affairs

Nowadays, many scoff at that notion as too simplistic.
And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February's rigged elections demonstrate.
Critics scoff that local Communist Party officials manipulate these elections.
In our cynical age, many might scoff at such an old-fashioned motto (or, indeed, at the power of any motto or slogan).
Today, energy experts no longer scoff.
Israel is now proud to be in a world of its own, in which it feels free to act unilaterally and scoff at toothless criticism from Europe (and now partly from the US).
Israeli security officials, for example, scoff at genital pat-downs, which they say accomplish nothing.
Some may scoff that this approach is impossible at the global level, because all politics are local.
NATO and U.S. officials who rail against the illegality of Yugoslavia's atrocities in Kosovo scoff at claims that NATO's bombing might violate international law.
CAMBRIDGE - G-20 leaders who scoff at the United States' proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire.

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