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
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
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
"So, then, you own him?" cried he, scoffingly.
From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever
