scoff
verb (used without object)
to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed byat ).
scoffingly
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a word derived from
scoff.
Example Sentences
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Internally, Sony considered smartphone gaming as “just good enough for gameplay,” and scoffingly referred to it as just something to kill time while waiting for your coffee or at the airport.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2021
Aircraft makers had been scoffingly certain that the tremendous Kaiser-Hughes plane would be a flop.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professional traders, who scoffingly described the selling by small stockholders as "emotional" and "hysterical," stepped up their buying Thursday morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Akporode Clark, scoffingly dismissed Ciskei's independence as "a pernicious project."
From Time Magazine Archive
Time, thus, might insensibly be gained, not only for eluding her fatal project, but happily, perhaps, for taming the dauntless wildness that made her, now, seem to stand scoffingly at bay, between life and death.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
