scoffer

[ skaw-fer, skof-er ]

/ ˈskɔ fər, ˈskɒf ər /

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a person who mocks or makes fun of someone or something, often of religion or moral values:We need courage when facing scoffers who jeer at our faith and make ironic comments about it.Scoffers may wonder how a small-scale, one-day Laurel and Hardy festival could ever draw attendees from around the world.

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Origin of scoffer

scoff¹ + -er¹

Words nearby scoffer

Sc.M., Sc.M.Hyg., SCOBY, scody, scoff, scoffer, scofflaw, Scofield, scoinson arch, scoke, scold

How to use scoffer in a sentence

The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Three shall not enter Paradise—the scoffer, the hypocrite, and the slanderer.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala|Various
The scoffer, the liar, the hypocrite, and the slanderer can have no share in the future world of bliss.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala|Various
She would want to know where 'the scoffer's seat' was, and if it had a cushion?
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls|Various

There shall she lie also, the scoffer and reviler, the worker of evil.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844|Various

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