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Meanings of
scoffing
in English
Catalan
escarni
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Showing your contempt by derision.
mockery
jeering
scoff
jeer
Catalan
escarni
Usage of
scoffing
in English
1
The madman at this moment was
scoffing
at the justice of God.
2
Well, you need some sort of diversion when you're
scoffing
your soup.
3
It was so strange to me not to be
scoffing
and despising.
4
The crowd that had gathered listened to him without any discernible
scoffing
.
5
I wag the laughing stock, a subject of
scoffing
and ridicule, often.
6
Where they found good land they settled,
scoffing
at the Dutch remonstrances.
7
What were they, the
scoffing
legionaries, doing in a Jewish religious procession?
8
His bitter and
scoffing
speech had inflicted keener wounds than his ambition.
9
Arnaud, however, in his slight
scoffing
disparagement, declined individually to annoy himself.
10
She felt that he was
scoffing
,
but it mattered little to her.
11
He uttered a
scoffing
sound too bitter to be called a laugh.
12
The captain drives the
scoffing
mob away, bidding the women come nearer.
13
The doctor was not wearing his usual cheerful and slightly
scoffing
expression.
14
There was an unmistakable ring of sternness behind Wingarde's deliberately
scoffing
tone.
15
Possibly also Violet's
scoffing
attitude towards her adorers had fostered her indifference.
16
Her hostess's
scoffing
reference to him made her long to get away.
Other examples for "scoffing"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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scoffing
scoff
Verb
Present
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
scoff at
scoff laugh
scoff sound
scoff tone
scoff words
More collocations
Translations for
scoffing
Catalan
escarni
escarn
escarniment
Scoffing
through the time
Scoffing
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common