Antonyms for scoffing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : skawf, skof

Phonetic Transcription : skɔf, skɒf

Definition of scoffing

Origin : mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c.1300), from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cf. Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).

adj sarcastic

Example sentences :

Miss Howes scoffed, it is true, but the scoffing was not convincing.
Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln

A score of stories in proof were hurled at the scoffing Maimon.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

Just that I was wrong; and I admit freely that I was wrong in scoffing at the propinquity.
Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith

Scholar Phelps was too close to the truth to make me like it, because he was scoffing.
Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith

How then will scoffing readers scape this marke of a maledizant?
Extract from : « Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 » by Arthur Acheson

But all this looks either like preaching or scoffing, and it is neither.
Extract from : « A Yeoman's Letters » by P. T. Ross

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett

I am punished for my sin in scoffing at the words of the Holy Book.
Extract from : « Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends » by Gertrude Landa

It was shown to the scoffing Martin as visible proof that the burglar had been there.
Extract from : « Just Patty » by Jean Webster

“It is most misleading,” she pointed out, to her scoffing brothers.
Extract from : « The Daughters of Danaus » by Mona Caird

Synonyms for scoffing

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