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Meanings of scoffer in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mocker"
Examples for "mocker"
1
It was the laugh of the mocker, but he was mocking himself.
2
Go-youfollow the mocker, or your hands would not be so dark.
3
From up the slope came a black-winged mocker's shrill cry of alarm.
4
Fairholme, suspecting mockery, frowned, and Miss Wilson looked severely at the mocker.
5
Impudent academic mocker, university life has destroyed your last rag of reverence.
1
Still, derision usually trumps enthusiasm; a jeerer has an easier time being thought intelligent than an acclaimer.
2
One such jeerer (a most ingenious fellow) actually managed to set Vinculus's shoes on fire while Vinculus was speaking.
3
And therefore an impertinent jeerer makes the whole company seem ill-natured and abusive, as being pleased with and consenting to the scurrility of the jeer.
4
Lack of agreement among practitioners as to what philosophy is meant to do "bolsters a philosophy-jeerer's charge that philosophy never can establish anything", she writes.
5
Link to video The jeerers have mounted a spirited defence online and across call-in radio programs.
1
The vehicle cuts-off the rule-flouter as he makes a break for it.
2
Cleopatra had become the personification of vice, flouter of every convention, breacher of every taboo.
3
And now, you mocker and flouter of what may be my bitterest misfortune-why ,sir ,nopunishment is sharp enough for you!
4
This is sufficient reply to the unbelieving flouters at the moral law.
5
As the public opinion is most watchful of the cringing canvass, the flouters are the most numerous party.
Usage of scoffer in English
1
He is a blasphemous scoffer, even with that which he declares holy.
2
Today this one scoffer, alone and unaided, was sufficient for his undoing.
3
He was human, very human, but he was no scoffer or doubter.
4
Not a man present, believer or scoffer, but breathed a silent prayer.
5
Three shall not enter Paradise-thescoffer, the hypocrite, and the slanderer.
6
Thus the son of praying parents often turns out to be a scoffer.
7
The new King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, was a scoffer.
8
This scoffer, the one false note in the meeting's harmony, had been silenced.
9
You are a scoffer, and you have made much mock at the world.
10
When his health was good and his spirits high he was a scoffer.
11
A scoffer looked down upon her through curling rings of smoke.
12
But he must not let this scoffer off without a word of rebuke.
13
If the scoffer should ask, what the deuce brought you there?
14
And collectively, my dear scoffer, we, men and women alike, have no influence.
15
I mayn't quite trust it, as you do, but I am no scoffer.
16
A scoffer at my elbow grins, Why should they bother to dig wells?
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