Synonyms for scoffing
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : skawf, skof |
| Phonetic Transcription : skɔf, skɒf |
Top 10 synonyms for scoffing Other synonyms for the word scoffing
- acerb
- acerbic
- acrimonious
- arrogant
- austere
- brusque
- captious
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- cynical
- derisive
- disillusioned
- disparaging
- disrespectful
- evil
- hostile
- irascible
- ironical
- jeering
- mean
- mocking
- mordant
- needling
- offensive
- ornery
- salty
- sardonic
- satiric
- satirical
- saucy
- scorching
- scornful
- scurrilous
- severe
- sharp
- smart-alecky
- snarling
- sneering
- taunting
- trenchant
- twitting
- weisenheiming
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for scoffing
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