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Meanings of scoff in English

Catalan
escarni

Showing your contempt by derision.

escarni
Portuguese
debochar
Catalan
fer cas omís
Spanish
rechiflar

Laugh at with contempt and derision.

debochar
Synonyms
Examples for "barrack"
Examples for "barrack"
1
In the tall and barrack-like houses candles gleamed in honor of Masaniello.
A Spirit in Prison
2
In the evening, the change from barrack-room to veldt was most delightful.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
3
The foundation of another barrack for officers was begun in this month.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 / ...
4
I detest having it in that great barrack of a dining-room downstairs.
The Splendid Folly
5
It was half-past three when the deputies were locked into the barrack-yard.
France in the Nineteenth Century
1
He was made to flout it and go his own sheep-headed way.
The Torch and Other Tales
2
We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
3
I will make thee yet a lady, whom none shall dare flout.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
4
Why do you flout one who longs to show you his devotion?
An Unwilling Maid / Being the History of Certain Episodes during...
5
Russia and China flout political borders, just look at Crimea and Hong Kong.
The Daily Telegraph
1
Here in his native village there were none to gibe and sneer.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
2
At the gibe business the German is, perhaps, better than the Briton.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
3
I ignored the gibe, but felt a twinge at the real possibility.
Halo Cryptum
4
The king's gibe stung, and he resolved not to wait for Dragonstone.
Rogues
5
I do not gibe back at a woman who presently will die.
The Lost Continent
Usage of scoff in English
1
He said it with a level stare that dared me to scoff.
Venus In Copper
2
It's easy to scoff at these claims as outlandish and distinctly American.
The Guardian
3
But when he tries to persuade them to come home, they scoff.
Reuters
4
Jacobson knows many people, including some of her relatives, scoff at QAnon.
News.com.au
5
The wild sublimity of Aeschylus became the scoff of every young Phidippides.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
6
Officials scoff at that and have accused right-wing activists of sabotaging lines.
Reuters
7
The next step is to rail and scoff at republics and democracies.
Chapters from My Autobiography
8
Don't take her to dinner and talk to her, Persephone would scoff.
Gods go begging
9
That's barely enough time to slug an EnormoCola and scoff a GigantaBucket.
The Irish Times
10
Yet of the moderns there are many who scoff at all omens.
The White Company
11
I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
12
It is so easy to scoff, and so difficult well to comprehend.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
13
The hard man spoke so tenderly that his hearer dared not scoff.
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
14
Then she would scoff at her own weakness and go doggedly on.
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College
15
These then are the people who scoff at leprechauns and their economics.
The Irish Times
16
The priests, however, take up the other part of the people's scoff.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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Translations for scoff
Portuguese
debochar
Scoff through the time
Scoff across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common