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Synonyms for scoff

gobble (up)

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Synonyms for scoff

to make fun or make fun of

an instance of mockery or derision

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Synonyms for scoff

showing your contempt by derision

laugh at with contempt and derision

treat with contemptuous disregard

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Marlo reality scoffs exhausted surrender impossible standards other This is equally polished and my favourite of the three.
Randolph scoffs at her firmly convinced Daisy murdered his relative.
Totally disillusioned with the Church, she challenges papal infallibility, scoffs at the hierarchy, and promotes modem ideas, such as destructuring the Church by giving more power and "personal moral choice" to the laity.
Smith scoffs at the naturalism expressed by Carl Sagan in his PBS series Cosmos.
Praeger scoffs at using heart-damaging hydrogenated oils.
McGie scoffs at the MNR hiring a consultant to tell the minister something she already told him.
Jade scoffs at the idea of being the perfect housewife and fights a constant battle between motherhood and her careen Her sharp tongue gets everyone's blood boiling.
THINLY DISGUISED: A year ago; CUDDLY: Vanessa in the old days; THE BOTTOM LINE: Vanessa is putting the broad into going abroad; LITTLE AND LARGE: Vanessa chats away to her new slim but hunky chum; NUTS: She scoffs a fattening snack; BIG LAUGHS: She roars over a joke from her poolside pal
Provisioning of troops in Vietnam cost too much, Lind scoffs. "The logistical requirements of United States forces would have been greatly reduced by a strategy that compelled American soldiers to live in small units among villages, rather than in bases like those stateside," he writes.