Scoffing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scoffing
    n 1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: {jeer}, {jeering},
         {mockery}, {scoff}, {scoffing}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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; -- often with at.
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         Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
         And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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         God's better gift they scoff at and refuse. --Cowper.
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   Syn: To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See {Sneer}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "scoffing":
      Humism, Pyrrhonism, abusive, agnosticism, banter, bantering,
      blackening, blameful, booing, catcalling, censorious, chaffing,
      condemnatory, contemptuous, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative,
      deprecatory, depreciative, derision, derisive, derisory,
      disparaging, doubt, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering,
      flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting,
      incredulity, invective, inveighing, jeering, joshing, judgmental,
      kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, objurgatory, panning,
      priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing,
      reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting,
      skepticism, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
      smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
      taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying, vituperative
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