scoff
Example Sentences
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Scoff if you must at lounge singers who perform, at times, in venues as modest as a Thai restaurant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Scoff if you must, but I think I’ve just come up with the plot to the next M. Night Shyamalan movie.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2021
Scoff as many of us might, she couples the experiences of Nobel laureates like Daniel Kahneman and Carl Wieman with contemporary neuroscientific studies to explain the benefits of physical movement for cognitive focus and memory.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021
“Everybody’s starting to appreciate what a good team we have,” said captain Scoff Arfield.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2019
Scoff not its homeliness, nor that of its inmates—ye might long have abidden at the court of England, ere we had sought your favour, or cumbered you with our society.
From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir
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