Thesaurus / scoff
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
There was nothing either false or forced about the little exclamation he made, half scoff, half laugh.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONS
They laugh at our music, they scoff at our arts and twist them into obscene mockeries.
THE LINKALAN EDWARD NOURSE
I had almost said "fools who came to scoff remained to pray!"
MEXICOCHARLES REGINALD ENOCK
Hence it needs not surprise that they are not very devout worshippers; it is a great wonder they do not openly scoff.
THE FIEND'S DELIGHTDOD GRILE
Should a cowardly Yankee be allowed to defy them, and scoff at them, and call them "bull-dogs and blood-hounds," with impunity?
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PARDEE BUTLERPARDEE BUTLER
But when it came to her wild fury against the paper that had dared to scoff at the boy he paused.
ONCE TO EVERY MANLARRY EVANS
Yours is a skeptic age, my dears, and you have learned to scoff at things you do not understand.
THE MASTER OF APPLEBYFRANCIS LYNDE
Then he slipped away "just to say good-bye to 'em," and even that hardened assembly of "canteen regulars" forbore to scoff.
SERVANTS OF THE GUNSJEFFERY E. JEFFERY
Thy home, it is reft from thee; thy reputation, it is a scoff; thine honour, it is a ghost that shall haunt thee!
LUCRETIA, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
WORDS RELATED TO SCOFF
- burn
- cashier
- cast aside
- cast off
- cast out
- chuck
- decline
- deny
- despise
- disallow
- disbelieve
- discard
- discount
- discredit
- disdain
- dismiss
- eliminate
- exclude
- give thumbs down to
- jettison
- jilt
- kill
- nix
- not buy
- pass by
- pass on
- pass up
- put down
- rebuff
- refuse
- renounce
- repel
- reprobate
- repudiate
- repulse
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- scrap
- second
- shed
- shoot down
- shun
- slough
- spurn
- throw away
- throw out
- turn down
- veto
- burn
- cashier
- cast aside
- cast off
- cast out
- chuck
- decline
- deny
- despise
- disallow
- disbelieve
- discard
- discount
- discredit
- disdain
- dismiss
- eliminate
- exclude
- give thumbs down to
- jettison
- jilt
- kill
- nix
- not buy
- pass by
- pass on
- pass up
- put down
- rebuff
- refuse
- renounce
- repel
- reprobate
- repudiate
- repulse
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- scrap
- second
- shed
- shoot down
- shun
- slough
- spurn
- throw away
- throw out
- turn down
- veto
- burn
- cashier
- cast aside
- cast off
- cast out
- chuck
- decline
- deny
- despise
- disallow
- disbelieve
- discard
- discount
- discredit
- disdain
- dismiss
- eliminate
- exclude
- give thumbs down to
- jettison
- jilt
- kill
- nix
- not buy
- pass by
- pass on
- pass up
- put down
- rebuff
- refuse
- renounce
- repel
- reprobate
- repudiate
- repulse
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- scrap
- second
- shed
- shoot down
- shun
- slough
- spurn
- throw away
- throw out
- turn down
- veto
- banter
- caricature
- cartoon
- chaff
- deflate
- deride
- expose
- fleer
- gibe
- haze
- humiliate
- jape
- jeer
- jive
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughing-stock
- make fun of
- mimic
- mock
- needle
- pan
- parody
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- raz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- run down
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- send up
- show up
- sneer
- takeoff
- taunt
- travesty
- twit
- unmask
- banter
- caricature
- cartoon
- chaff
- deflate
- deride
- expose
- fleer
- gibe
- haze
- humiliate
- jape
- jeer
- jive
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughing-stock
- make fun of
- mimic
- mock
- needle
- pan
- parody
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- raz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- run down
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- send up
- show up
- sneer
- takeoff
- taunt
- travesty
- twit
- unmask
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