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• n  showing your contempt by derision
• v  laugh at with contempt and derision
• v  treat with contemptuous disregard

• Some green groups scoff at this practice, but Hauge sees it as crucial to reducing emissions.
• It would be easy to scoff at such ideas, elaborated by Laura Doyle in her book The Surrendered Wife (Simon Schuster) as retro or ridiculous.
• It was generally ridiculed at the time, and most citizens of Aurora still scoff.

• jeer
• jeering
• mockery
• scoffing
• flout
• barrack
• gibe

News & Articles

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• Which Current or Former Minnesota Twins Would Make a Solid Major League Manager?
  COMMENTARY | When you listen to your favorite baseball team's telecast, you might hear your local announcers proclaim the guy at the end of the bench to be a potential major league manager. As a reaction, you might scoff and say "Nick Punto? Major league manager? Go home, Bert. You're drunk."
  June 13, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Sports
• Wyoming beekeeping takes money, time and a love of nature
  Ask Woody Taylor whether his honey tastes better than the store-bought variety and he’ll scoff. Then he’ll hand you a chunk of raw honeycomb.
  June 7, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Jennifer Love Hewitt in Stuff.co.nz
  Jennifer, 29, said: "I wish I had been nude from the time I was 12 until I was 28. I looked great! I so wish I had listened to my mom and grandma when I was 18 and would complain about some little tiny bump or feeling bloated. I used to scoff and...
• Matt Millen in Atlanta Journal Constitution (registration)
  The answer is no. Calvin Johnson is staying right here in Detroit,Millen told reporters in Detroit, adding that Johnson would help give the Lions "one of the most dynamic offenses in the league. I firmly believe that. You can scoff at it...
• Joe Maddon in International Herald Tribune
  I'm so used to the eye roll. I'm so used to the scoff,Maddon said, looking back on that first day of camp. "I'm so used to it, and I'm really immune to both. ...... At some point, corny can turn into cool."