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"Scoff" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Outsiders tend to scoff at Esperanto as an idealistic waste of time.
I scoff at it.
I'm not going to change my opinion no matter how much you scoff.
If you want to change someone's opinion on something, the worst way to do it is to scoff at them.
You'll never convince them if you scoff at and insult them.
Engineers scoff at creative people during the day, but then go home at night and worship fantasy worlds authored by creative people.
Don't scoff.
It's easy to scoff; it's better to understand.
I can not prophesy what will be the outcome of the efforts which the Filipino women are now making to obtain suffrage; but I know that these efforts must be to them, and are to us, a source of pride and glory, because they show that there is no part of our people which has remained indifferent to the great movements of the century. There are persons who scoff at them and many shrug their shoulders; but this must not discourage our women, because neither scoffing nor shrugging the shoulders are very weighty arguments.
Ten grand is nothing to scoff at.
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VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
"I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, sir; the man's dead;" said Lowe, sternly. / "Another gloss on my text; why invade me like house-breakers?" said Dangerfield, with a grim scoff.
There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]
[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]
The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
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