American English pronunciation
How to pronounce scoff
IPA transcription: [s'kɔf]
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Noun
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showing your contempt by derision
Verb
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laugh at with contempt and derision
“The crowd jeered at the speaker”
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treat with contemptuous disregard
“flout the rules”
Usage examples
- Looking for the saga called The Scofflaw
- The other dentists scoff at him and assume that Montreal is a fictional place.
- But the headmaster, Boothby, scoffs at Crabbe's warnings.
- The concept was developed by Georges Auguste Escoffier.
- When his friends scoffed, Johnson set out to prove them wrong.
- They scoff at the idea of a woman's college.
- Diane scoffs that Mary won't and bets her car on it.
- There are four Furby Party Rockers, called Twitby, Fussby, Scoffby and Loveby.
- Looking for the saga called The Scofflaw