scoffer


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someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

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someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

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You are a scoffer, a man of the world, a cavalry officer, and, though not without brains, you do not realize how profound is your thought, nor how true.
We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
By this time there had arisen a shout of laughter at the extraordinary appearance of Car's back, which irritated the dark queen into getting rid of the disfigurement by the first sudden means available, and independently of the help of the scoffers. She rushed excitedly into the field they were about to cross, and flinging herself flat on her back upon the grass, began to wipe her gown as well as she could by spinning horizontally on the herbage and dragging herself over it upon her elbows.
Nor was Hugh by any means a passive follower, who scrupled to act without precise and definite orders; for when Mr Tappertit mounted on an empty cask which stood by way of rostrum in the room, and volunteered a speech upon the alarming crisis then at hand, he placed himself beside the orator, and though he grinned from ear to ear at every word he said, threw out such expressive hints to scoffers in the management of his cudgel, that those who were at first the most disposed to interrupt, became remarkably attentive, and were the loudest in their approbation.
If she heard laughter or jeering in the crowd, she would rush at once at the scoffers and begin squabbling with them.
But on that day Mademoiselle Cormon (much benefited by the bleeding) would have seemed sublime even to the boldest scoffers, had they witnessed the noble dignity, the splendid Christian resignation which influenced her as she gave her arm to her involuntary deceiver to go into breakfast.
In 2017, I interviewed Solihull's own champion nettle scoffer Jon Searle and he candidly revealed the torture behind taking the title.
She is Satan's scoffer and she is there to take the world and make 'em laugh and then diss Jesus, try to take away the respect from Jesus.
Consumers are encouraged to ask themselves which one of the four kinds of Jaffa Cake eater they are: "The Jelly Lover," "The All Rounder," "The Half Mooner," or "The Scoffer." Each of these four expressions is showcased on the top panel of the pack in a playful and mischievous way in line with the brand's character.
Who could fail to be touched by Lord Marchmain's deathbed reaffirmation of faith, expressed by wordlessly crossing himself, after living the last 25 years of his life as a "scoffer" (336).
Abraham Lincoln faced his share of sharp criticism from political opponents during his career, but among the most stinging accusations against him may have been an implication that the future president was "an open scoffer at Christianity"--in other words, an atheist.
You can then snap a pick of a smiling scoffer and share it socially.
Abraham Lincoln seems to go further when he says that the one who is "an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion" has no right "thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live." In other moods, Jefferson too recognized the threat of moral injury.
Pre-match all the talk was about the absence of serial scoffer Luis Suarez.