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Definition of scoff:

  • (noun) showing your contempt by derision
  • (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
  • (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"

Sentence Examples:

Many had come to scoff.

None ventured openly to scoff.

Wretches, dare ye thus scoff?

I scoff no more, Mildred.

A barbarian one, do you scoff?

Give orders; let them scoff.

It is the merest of scoffs.

A few were inclined to scoff.

Some authorities scoff at literary introductions.

"Let none dare scoff at Mathias."

Won't the scoff taste good!

Ignorant people use it as a scoff.

The captain would only scoff.

She said with an angry scoff.

Now, a woman scoffs at evidence.

Don't scoff, or scowl at beggars.

Then he would scoff at himself.

He scoffs at religion of every kind.

To have a pleasant scoff at majesty.

The scoff of the whole city!

This made the landlord only scoff.

To-day the world scoffs at curses.

"The physical scientist scoffs at us."

Never scoff at people because they fall.

And it is not proper to scoff.

Winnie looked ready to scoff and laugh.

The real poet scoffs at such suggestions.

You dare to scoff at me, rebellious thing!

The practical politician may scoff at it.

Bonner who had clearly come to scoff.

Try not to scoff at my armor?

Let no man scoff at these terrors.

Yet why should I scoff at poor Ali?

"Fools who came to scoff remained to pray."

Scoffs the Englishman of the nineteenth century.

Those who now scoff soon will pray.

By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!

He cared nothing for scoff and reproach.

There is no one to comment or to scoff.

My father rather scoffs at the legend.

It was then that he learned to scoff.

Some men scoff because they have already sinned.

Fathers went to scoff and remained to pay.

Said the officer, turning away with a scoff.

You shouldn't scoff at things you don't understand.

No, I do not scoff at his genius.

Dare we of a lesser mold scoff at them?

Let the heartless scoff, the unjust despise!

What, can your grace endure these cursed scoffs?

In the morning Rolf was inclined to scoff.

And why shouldn't I scoff at human tears?

Life had shown him much to scoff at.

How has my passion made me Cupid's scoff!

You scoff now, but you will pray then.

And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.

You will lay yourself open to many a scoff.

Would have been a finger point and a scoff.

He was no longer disposed to scoff at everything.

You scoff at any hint of a possible immortality.

Did you not make your merry scoff of me?

They scoff at our facts and ignore our warnings.

Why, the whole form would scoff at us!

He was under obligations, and dared not scoff.

And with this scoff he was led away.

Even Jessie ceased to scoff at this turn in events.

Sheer slavery this, but he lets them scoff!

We all believe it, even the scientists who scoff.

The fair girl scoffs as they enter the house.

You did not scoff, as others might have done.

What is it to him that small boys scoff?

She scoffs at everything, and is not even witty.

It's all very well to scoff at amateur detectives.

"You scoff at my love and brave my hate!"

They do not scoff at authority, or reject it.

I came to scoff and remained to thread needles myself.

Far be it from me to scoff at any sect.

"I don't like to scoff at anybody," the editor said.

It is fashionable to scoff at them in a superior manner.

For it is pleasant, let them scoff who will!

His sneers and scoffs are thrown in every direction.

The old lady was inclined to scoff at first.

"He scoffs at wounds who never felt a scar."

Miserable themselves, they scoff at the still more miserable.

Later the enemy affected to scoff at their usefulness.

More ready would they be to scoff than to fear.

Some of those who had come to scoff grew pale.

He scoffs at any supernatural explanation of our terrible loss.

We chose to scoff at an excellence that insulted us.

Often would critics come to scoff and remain to pray.

All wretched I moan and ye scoff at my sadness.

I was afraid of the scoffs of these wicked Indians.

Hell itself were easier to endure than those bitter scoffs.

Have they made a legacy to one another of this scoff?

Instead of remaining to scoff, you should have gone to pray.

It scoffs at our words; it is not of this earth.

She will scoff at you, and perhaps bid you farewell.

Shame was quite right in his scoff about restitution also.

As for doing regular work, they scoff at the idea.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

And he actually scoffs at the Restoration of the Sacrifices!'