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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

Professional traders, who scoffingly described the selling by small stockholders as "emotional" and "hysterical," stepped up their buying Thursday morning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aircraft makers had been scoffingly certain that the tremendous Kaiser-Hughes plane would be a flop.

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

"I was not aware how much I owed to your discretion, madam," said he, scoffingly.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James