Thesaurus / scoff
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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) WEBSTERThere was nothing either false or forced about the little exclamation he made, half scoff, half laugh.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSThey laugh at our music, they scoff at our arts and twist them into obscene mockeries.
THE LINKALAN EDWARD NOURSEI had almost said "fools who came to scoff remained to pray!"
MEXICOCHARLES REGINALD ENOCKHence 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 GRILEShould 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 BUTLERBut when it came to her wild fury against the paper that had dared to scoff at the boy he paused.
ONCE TO EVERY MANLARRY EVANSYours is a skeptic age, my dears, and you have learned to scoff at things you do not understand.
THE MASTER OF APPLEBYFRANCIS LYNDEThen 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. JEFFERYThy 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-LYTTONWORDS RELATED TO SCOFF
- burns
- cashiers
- casts aside
- casts off
- casts out
- chucks
- declines
- denies
- despises
- disallows
- disbelieves
- discards
- discounts
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- eliminates
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- gives thumbs down to
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- jilts
- kills
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- not buys
- passes by
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- turns down
- vetoes
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- cartoon
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- expose
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- jolly
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- kid
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- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughingstock
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- mimic
- mock
- needle
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- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
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- give Bronx cheer
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- caricature
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- curl one's lip
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- disdain
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- fleer
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- gibe
- gird
- give Bronx cheer
- grin
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- insult
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- rally
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- twit
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- caricatured
- cracked
- curled one's lip
- decried
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- dumped
- fleered
- flouted
- gave Bronx cheer
- gibed
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- grinned
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- turned up one's nose
- twitted
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- caricaturing
- cracking
- curling one's lip
- decrying
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- dumping
- fleering
- flouting
- gibing
- girding
- giving Bronx cheer
- grinning
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- rallying
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- slighting
- smiling
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- snickering
- sniff at
- swiping
- taunting
- travestying
- turning up one's nose
- twitting
- underrating
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