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Scoff   /skɔf/   Listen
noun
Scoff  n.  
1.
Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. "With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts."
2.
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. "The scoff of withered age and beardless youth."


verb
Scoff  v. t.  To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at. "To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest."


Scoff  v. i.  (past & past part. scoffed; pres. part. scoffing)  To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; often with at. "Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray." "God's better gift they scoff at and refuse."
Synonyms: To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See Sneer.





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"Scoff" Quotes from Famous Books



... cadets): Here are the rebels! Ay, Sirs, on all sides I hear that in your ranks you scoff at me; That the Cadets, these loutish, mountain-bred, Poor country squires, and barons of Perigord, Scarce find for me—their Colonel—a disdain Sufficient! call me plotter, wily courtier! It does not please their ...
— Cyrano de Bergerac • Edmond Rostand
... writer of The present poem—of—I know not what—A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human power and virtue, and all that;[365] And this they say in language rather rough. Good God! I wonder what they would be at! I say no more than hath been said in Dante's Verse, and by ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... however humble, would have had neither the will nor the power to ride a-horseback; but he, against the advice of all his friends, listened only to the voice of courage, braved the fiery suns of June and August, which were the dread of the youngest knights, and made a scoff of those who could not bear the heat, although many a time, during the passage of narrow and difficult swampy places, he was constrained to get himself held on by those about him." After an obstinate struggle, and at the ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... touched poison and immunity and murder, but inwardly he began to scoff at his own habits of suspicion. However, before he could reach for the glass, Pierce had given a short snort as though in recognition of his presumptuousness and drank his ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye
... conforming to the older ideals are recognized as exceptional. The city draws the village and rural family to itself, and the contagion of its customs and ideals spreads through the villages and affects the forms of living there. Youths become city dwellers and do not cease to scoff at the village unless later years give them wisdom to appreciate its higher values. The standard of domestic organization is established by the city; that type of living is the ideal toward which ...
— Religious Education in the Family • Henry F. Cope


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