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Sentence Examples I scoff every time I hear this but out of deference to my feeble-minded readers who use this as an excuse I will not laugh. The older generation, such as Aunt Olivia, tended to scoff at such suggestions. Seriously, though, they're modestly sized so good for children, or for greedy guts who can happily scoff more than one. Throw in a road that twists all over the hill like a drunken sailor on leave, and you'll never scoff at a moped again. We'll cook roast lamb and potatoes and indulgent desserts and scoff the whole thing ourselves. She let out a loud scoff and flipped her ponytail over her shoulder, beginning to carelessly check her hair for split ends. And with a scoff to the gentleman, wherever he was, Mitch turned around and headed for the garage to get back to that overheating engine. Those tempted to scoff would do well to remember mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease. There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Thus, when evangelists preach the message of the Cross to today's generation, they are dismayed that increasingly people scoff at the message. I believe hardcore fisherman may scoff at this time of day, thinking that you have to be up at the crack of dawn to make the best of it. Of course, the best researchers are flagrant scofflaws about disciplinary boundaries, but most of the rest of us scoff them at our peril. She laughed, a short scoff of a bark, and Lana even managed to smile, even if it was a bit wan and forced. If he asks for a pith helmet with a propeller to be properly dressed for quail hunting, don't scoff. Some scientists tend to scoff at the idea of interstellar travel because of the enormous distances that separate the stars. Oh yeah, you may scoff but soon you'll be copying my pink eye look and trying to duplicate my Gabriel's trumpet-like sneeze. He may have his legion of knockers who scoff at his lack of goals compared with his wage packet. I was about to say something when Austin interrupted by letting out a loud scoff. I was to nervous to eat much, but I had watched them scoff their food down quickly as we made our way to the back door of the club. Hedge your bets by planting different species, as it is unlikely that the birds will scoff the lot. Show More Sentences You changed clothes when you got to the airlock on the Moon, but Adam planned to scoff his candies on the shuttle. So, instead of eating a roll of Munchies I would scoff a handful of blueberries. You can't have the Michelangelo of scoff waving to all corners for ketchup. A celebrity in a search of a fast buck can do a lot worse than lend their name to a range of scoff. The initial reaction of any Indian is to scoff at the idea of Mother's Day, which is not as hyped as Valentine's Day. Racers may scoff, but both Liz and I feel that a heel brake is required for safe street skating. It's easy to feel sluggish at the beginning of the year, especially after a fortnight of festive celebration and scoff. He scoffed in what was considered a manly scoff and placed his fingers back to the bridge of his nose. He is coming later, we've got leftover nut roast and stuffing sandwiches to scoff first. In my hometown of New York City, social circles would surely scoff at such behavior. Her tan skin offended the pale students around her, all but Codwell, who aggressively accepted her with a scoff at first. These mostly dare-devil works scoff at him or, quite the opposite, are inspired by him to conjure up spellbinding, entrancing sonorities. In our modern, rational society there is a tendency to scoff at such possibilities. If you're young and healthy, you might initially scoff at the idea of disability, critical illness or long term care insurance. Rather than despising Western freedom, many Muslims admire it, but they scoff at Western claims to be promoting democracy. There are plenty who scoff at the lippy, giant Traveller's chances of toppling Wlad the Impaler. And while social programs are nothing to scoff at, the more mundane stuff, like where to go when you're 17 on a Friday night, is what most underagers are most concerned with. Such messages are unlikely to be beloved of secularists who prefer to scoff at the religious rather than engage with them. We scoff at the notion that anybody would be taken in by such scams. I think most people would scoff at the idea, and rightly so. Show More Sentences Shane's upper lip curled up and she emitted a scoff of disgust. Spirit companies need to tell their PR agencies to stop trying to push them, and consumers should scoff at them. Luckily, Carrie is well-practiced at disguising her vegetarianism and has been known to scoff hamburgers whole just to throw people off her scent. People might scoff at the fact that he was a mazdoor, but it was no sin to work as a labourer and surely his earnings would increase as he became better at his job. When you hear what he has to say in Unstoppable about the emergence of a new bipartisan politics, you may be inclined to scoff. Before we scoff, let us consider the power of the celebrity for a moment. We can scoff now at the innocence of the early atomic age when we were all advised that in a nuclear attack it was safe to hide under the kitchen table. She looked up and glared at me hard for a moment before she shook her head and gave a soft amused noise that was halfway towards being a disbelieving scoff. Luckily I recovered with a scoff, the evil eye, and a quick getaway. It was more like a harsh bark of a scoff, rather than a laugh. Rachel forced a scoff as she turned for the pink canopy bed. At her core as both a mother and a politician was a guiding emotion that would make a cynic scoff. However, she says the single life does have its advantages including being able to scoff junk food in front of the TV and have the privacy of your own bathroom. This position is no surprise, coming as it does from people who deny the environmental impact of global warming and scoff at the Kyoto protocol. In meetings with youth in at risk neighbourhoods, I have learned that many young men on the edge scoff at the existing penalties. I know the Conservatives scoff at the idea, but I hope they bear this in mind. The life of this world is alluring to those who reject faith, and they scoff at those who believe. Calamities will strike this generation, which continues to scoff at God and His Holy Law. No matter for the wood that finds itself a violin, and scoff at the thoughtless, who argue about something they completely ignore! Other journalists may scoff at me for this – it's standard practice to push sources to go on the record. Show More Sentences Here are three, possibly four, of them: Blairites will scoff and swear at that subheading. No, please do not scoff, because that kind of attitude is exactly how all the demagogues and dictators down the ages got away with it. Maybe we really shouldn't scoff when we see how much time some people spend online. Others scoff that the U. S. economy is no free market at all, with so much regulation. I don't even think before I manage a scoff, and I scrunch up my nose. I usually would give such a thing a scoff and forget about it. But what makes this weekend off so much more special than the rest is the fact that we have an excuse to scoff countless numbers of chocolate Easter eggs. There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion. We may scoff, but when you think about it Walsh could use his newly rediscovered spare time assembling a taskforce to solve all the world's problems. Meanwhile, someone is, like me, about to scoff a lamington. Lewis Richard and Michael Banks set out to try and scoff a gigantic beefburger. We must not succumb to the simplistic slogans of those preaching the withdrawal of the state, who promote the minimal state, and who scoff at the idea of public service. Although readers might scoff at some of the numbers of aerial victories claimed by Kramarenko for both himself and the Soviet fighter units, this should not detract from the book as a whole. For, if the information had spread, maddened hordes of frenetic pressmen would have swooped across the world on jet-propelled wings, to scoff, deny, and misreport. It would be easy and understandable to scoff. Union officials scoff at both suggestions. As people hear of the prophecies of judgment they will scoff and laugh, but as they begin to occur, they will seek the truth, and some will come into a knowledge of the truth and turn to serve the Lord God. But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. We scoff at ourselves when we're not there yet without recognizing that perfection is unattainable and that striving to reach our goals is a constant journey. He's lost a wife but gained a neck, probably as a result of not having to scoff a cowpie and a cake shop or two with the missus every night. Show More Sentences Some readers scoff at this fable as only good for scaring children. Some have taken the opportunity to scoff at those cheating Antipodeans because British fair play means such a scandal could never occur here. Those, who presently scoff at Me, will come back to Me to repent, and My compassion will purify them, but woe betide the one who refuses to submit to My Law of Love, he will be annihilated. Even his own contemporaries found reason to scoff at his achievement. Examples from Classical Literature Most would scoff at the suggestion, of course, feeling that it showed the low nature of the suggester. This notion my experience of the country, gathered in the seclusion of the Oriental at kob, made me scoff at. The practical person, the wary pedant, and the supercritical will scoff at this, but let it stand. He comes to scoff and does not remain to pray, but rather to excommunicate. It seemed to me to rend the darkness, to scoff at my heart and my sweet reasonableness! There was a sort of scoff in it which rightly or wrongly he took to himself. The public would scoff at the letter-press for Daily telegraphese. I know that some allegedly wise ones will scoff at this statement. Many would scoff, and call it menial Let them, if they will. People who eat while they are watching their favourite programme are likely to absentmindedly scoff much more than they want or need. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of scoff? Words that rhyme with scoff What is the past tense of scoff? What is the plural of scoff? What is the adverb for scoff? What is the adjective for scoff? What is the noun for scoff? Translations for scoff Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words SCO SCN SCM ScM sclerotized sclerotization scoffed scoffed at scoffer scoffers scoffing scoffingly 5-letter Words Starting With s sc sco scof