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Meanings of scoff in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "mockery"
Examples for "mockery"
1
Though affectionate mockery is nothing new, the golden age was relatively recently.
2
It seems such a mockery; but if she wishes it; and Arthur-
3
Thirty-two percent thought he would make a mockery of the political process.
4
I could sense it the same way I'd felt its mockery earlier.
5
But perhaps Falcao should be the subject of sympathy rather than mockery.
1
A laugh frigidly jeering; a look lazily mutinous; gentlemanlike irony, patrician resentment.
2
The jeering voice from the rear of the room belonged to Toomey.
3
Following the ignominious defeat the booing and jeering went up several decibels.
4
Another time I asked for hints and ended up jeering at myself.
5
It benumbed him for a second; then he laughed with jeering bitterness.
1
The crowds felt free to cheer, jeer, and offer questions and comments.
2
No offence is intended; the men jeer out of mere harmless devilment.
3
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
4
The omnipresent small boys and soldiers jeer, and some tear the banners.
5
They began to jeer and insult him more than the other boys.
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.
Usage of scoff in inglês
1
He said it with a level stare that dared me to scoff.
2
It's easy to scoff at these claims as outlandish and distinctly American.
3
But when he tries to persuade them to come home, they scoff.
4
Jacobson knows many people, including some of her relatives, scoff at QAnon.
5
The wild sublimity of Aeschylus became the scoff of every young Phidippides.
6
Officials scoff at that and have accused right-wing activists of sabotaging lines.
7
The next step is to rail and scoff at republics and democracies.
8
Don't take her to dinner and talk to her, Persephone would scoff.
9
That's barely enough time to slug an EnormoCola and scoff a GigantaBucket.
10
Yet of the moderns there are many who scoff at all omens.
11
I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.
12
It is so easy to scoff, and so difficult well to comprehend.
13
The hard man spoke so tenderly that his hearer dared not scoff.
14
Then she would scoff at her own weakness and go doggedly on.
15
These then are the people who scoff at leprechauns and their economics.
16
The priests, however, take up the other part of the people's scoff.
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Translations for scoff
português
Scoff through the time
Scoff across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common