scoffer

[ skaw-fer, skof-er ]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scoffer¹

scoff ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.

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Three shall not enter Paradise—the scoffer, the hypocrite, and the slanderer.

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The scoffer, the liar, the hypocrite, and the slanderer can have no share in the future world of bliss.

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She would want to know where 'the scoffer's seat' was, and if it had a cushion?

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There shall she lie also, the scoffer and reviler, the worker of evil.

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Related Words

• agnostic
• cynic
• dissenter
• doubter
• pessimist
• questioner