scoffing

Example Sentences

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Scoffing at that observation is natural since it is overwhelmingly embraced as hilarious, including by many Black folks, but certainly not all.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

Scoffing at the list of charges against Williams, Ulrich summed up the prosecution’s strategy as, “basically, let’s throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

Re: Scoffing: She and her ex “have wound up more or less friends again,” but the letter suggests “less” is winning out.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2018

Scoffing at the concept of stylists and male grooming, key evidence includes the changing shape of their eyebrows over the years, and the varying height of Paul McCartney.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2017

Scoffing will not sustain a man in his solitude, when he has nobody to scoff at; and disbelief is only a bottomless tub, which will not float me across the dark river.

From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert