scoffingly
- 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
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
Administration officials scoffingly denied anything like the connivance alleged by Moscow, and persuasively insisted that Carter had indeed tried to deter Teng from any "unwise" action.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But until now the outlines of his courtship were somewhat indistinct," said Kuhl, scoffingly.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
