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scoffed
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vb. (en-past of: scoff )
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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; ...
Usage examples of scoffed.
Matron Baenre reasoned, and her surprise was total when the avatar scoffed at the notion.
The more we scoffed and told her the hot room was only smelly because of its new plaster, the more Rhea screamed hysterically at bath time.
The men, as I said, were adventuresome and bold, and they scoffed at the tales of ghosts.
He received a quickly tossed glare from beneath dark lashes and scoffed at the idea that she disliked the conclusion he had drawn.
Anne scoffed with amusement, then informed the couple, "I've a liking for girls, and plenty of them.
Then she had started shopping on her own, and scoffed when Dorotea wor ried that child-stealers would snatch her.
Someone suggests that Benden’s lone Weyr is circulating the rumors, but that idea is scoffed at: The precious dragonriders of Benden never show their faces outside the old mountain.
She wouldn't have been so upset if it had been any stallion other than Rubio, but he'd scoffed at her objections to the horse.
Over the centuries legends and superstitions had formed about some magical source of power the Templars had controlled, much like the ridiculous claims about the Ark of the Covenant, but unlike some in the Foundation, Parrish secretly scoffed at the idea.
She weighed up my condition as impartially as a stain on a bedsheet, then scoffed, "Soft as cake custard.
The Crinti scoffed at the idea of fighting against tridents, equating these pronged weapons with the pitiful defense mounted by human farmers.
But Wedigar scoffed at that notion, pointing out tlhat fully threescore of berserker warriors might be enough to hold him down and keep him from harming himself or others.
Which made it the more absurd, he scoffed, that Bray should also Certify the shoulders, so to speak, on which the head perched.
Sear scoffed: his wife's infirmities, her imminent widowhood, her beginning menopause -- not to mention the parlous state of the University, ever worsening, and the general absurdity of existence.
Rexford's chilly announcement that she'd be dining out that evening, and (what Stoker hadn't been aware of) not least by my several counsels to him, which though he'd scoffed at them he couldn't forget.