scoff

Example Sentences

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You’ve saved a lot — $1.2 million is nothing to scoff at — but you have a lot of life ahead.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

The Russians in Barentsburg scoff at the prospect of war in the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Poehler might be far from an unknown, but that kind of attention is nothing to scoff at, especially when the podcast market is as crowded as it is.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2026

Many of us are lucky if we find time to scoff down some cereal before work.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

“All I ask, all I ask, is some small minimum of trust, just a little bit of sympathy for all I am trying to do, and instead you disbelieve, you scoff, you mock and jeer.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson