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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scoffing
    n 1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering,
         mockery, scoff, scoffing]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scoff \Scoff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scoffed (?; 115); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Scoffing.] [Cf. Dan. skuffe to deceive, delude,
   Icel. skopa to scoff, OD. schoppen. See Scoff, n.]
   To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by
   derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
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         Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
         And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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         God's better gift they scoff at and refuse. --Cowper.
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   Syn: To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See Sneer.
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Thesaurus Results for Scoffing:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Humism, Pyrrhonism, abusive, agnosticism, banter, bantering, blackening, blameful, booing, catcalling, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derision, derisive, derisory, disparaging, doubt, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, incredulity, invective, inveighing, jeering, joshing, judgmental, kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, objurgatory, panning, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, skepticism, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying, vituperative
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