scoffing

Speech parts

1. scoffing - Noun

2. scoffing - Verb

Meaning

of Scoff

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Phrases with the word

Examples

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with. Margaret Atwood

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp. Plutarch

Last year, like many others, I too made the mistake of scoffing at this post-September 11th rhetoric, dismissing it as foolish and arrogant. But I've realized...It's actually a canny recruitment drive for a misconceived, dangerous war. Arundhati Roy

I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day. Peter Andre

Thou whose deep ways are in the sea, Whose footsteps are not known, To-night a world that turned from Thee Is waiting - at Thy Throne.The towering Babels that we raised Where scoffing sophists brawl, The little Antichrists we praised - The night is on them all. Alfred Noyes

My car has a new fortress. It will scoff at the hurricanes this year. Scoff like unto a scoffing machine. Brian Clevinger

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