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Synonyms for scoffer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skawf, skof |
| Phonetic Transcription : skɔf, skɒf |
Top 10 synonyms for scoffer Other synonyms for the word scoffer
- disbeliever
- doubter
- doubting Thomas
- egoist
- egotist
- flouter
- freethinker
- heathen
- heretic
- iconoclast
- idolater
- idolist
- infidel
- materialist
- misanthrope
- misanthropist
- misbeliever
- misogamist
- misogynist
- mocker
- nihilist
- nonbeliever
- pagan
- paganist
- pantheist
- polytheist
- profaner
- rationalist
- satirist
- scoffer
- skeptic
- sneerer
- unbeliever
Définition of scoffer
Origin :- late 15c., agent noun from scoff (v.).
- As in pagan : noun person who does not believe in an orthodox religion
- As in skeptic : noun person who is leery, unbelieving
- As in misanthropist : noun cynic
- As in unbeliever : noun skeptic
- As in cynic : noun nonbeliever
- I am delighted to testify to these things, because I had formerly been a scoffer.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- All creeds may be welded together, but the Puritan and the scoffer are like oil and water.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Said I was a scoffer and an infidel and didn't know anything about Scripture! '
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It would never do for the scoffer to become a convert openly and at once.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- "You are a scoffer," the other reproached him, and his rascally face was oddly grave.
- Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
- It remains to say that he was not disposed, being a sceptic and a scoffer.
- Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
- But I offered him my hand with a friendliness which assured him I was not a scoffer.
- Extract from : « The Madonna of the Future » by Henry James
- I come from the Chief—but I had not expected to find Simwa, the scoffer, before me.
- Extract from : « The Arrow-Maker » by Mary Austin
- "Who is that scoffer," said the man in gray, not without warmth.
- Extract from : « The Confidence-Man » by Herman Melville
Antonyms for scoffer
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