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synonyms for scoff at

  • criticize
  • decry
  • deride
  • discredit
  • disparage
  • downplay
  • scorn
  • underestimate
  • deprecate
  • depreciate
  • derogate
  • diminish
  • discount
  • downgrade
  • knock
  • lower
  • minimize
  • pan
  • rip
  • roast
  • slam
  • smear
  • trivialize
  • underrate
  • undervalue
  • bad-mouth
  • cut down to size
  • cut to the quick
  • dispraise
  • dump on
  • pooh pooh
  • poor-mouth
  • put down
  • run down
  • shoot down
  • shoot full of holes
  • sneer at
  • take a swipe at
  • take down
  • take down a peg
  • tear down
  • write off

antonyms for scoff at

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  • approve
  • commend
  • compliment
  • flatter
  • laud
  • praise
  • enlarge
  • increase
  • overestimate
  • overrate
  • overvalue
  • raise
  • upgrade
  • build up
  • exaggerate
  • value
  • praise
  • approve
  • build up
  • cherish
  • commend
  • compliment
  • defend
  • endorse
  • esteem
  • exaggerate
  • exalt
  • flatter
  • honor
  • increase
  • laud
  • maximize
  • overestimate
  • overrate
  • protect
  • respect
  • revere
  • sanction
  • support
  • raise
  • rate
  • recommend
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    How to use scoff at in a sentence

    Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    And the Seneschal, moved by that confident promise of evil, threw himself before the men-at-arms.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    On the first day, a thousand English archers, supported by men-at-arms, attempted to draw the Scots.
    KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISON
    Belhaven made his escape to his own country, and was there beyond the reach of the Serjeant-at-Arms.
    THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
    Her mother had been carried off by a Burgundian man-at-arms, and none knew what had become of her.
    THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHEANATOLE FRANCE
    At the foot of the table the Norman men-at-arms were splashing their liquor, and roaring broad jests at the Greek serving-maids.
    GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
    It was made imperative that a serjeant-at-law or a king's counsel should sit to assist in the judgment.
    THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLAN
    Men-at-arms rushed away; but in neither the multitude nor the city found they Zeyneb.
    GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
    The heedless chatter of the ladies, the braying laughs of the men-at-arms, were a little chilled.
    GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
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