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Definition of scoffing : of Scoff

Synonyms:

charade, scoff, put-on, laughter, satiric, burlesque, lampoon, travesty, mockery, respect, takeoff, sendup, jeer, parody, pasquinade, spoof

antipathetic, sarcastic, disdainful, sardonic, scornful, abusive, contemptuous, jeering, ridiculing, satirical, insulting, disparaging, mocking, deprecative, derisive, flippant

humiliating, deriding, riding, ragging, quipping, caricaturing, joking, burlesquing, gibing, jesting, sneering, mimicking, kidding, denigrating, taunting, razzing, roasting, deprecating

Usage examples:

• You may perhaps have noticed that when during our voyage you all joined in scoffing at dreams, portents and visions, I invariably avoided giving any opinion on the subject. - "Clairvoyance", Charles Webster Leadbeater.
• For years they had held back, scoffing, predicting disaster; and while they held back venturesome youths had become millionaires. - "The Cow Puncher", Robert J. C. Stead.
• Some one asked- and asked in a scoffing spirit, father: 'Supposing you were to go out- doors, Mrs. Titus, with nothing on, when the thermometer was below zero, should you feel cold? - "The Opinions of a Philosopher", Robert Grant.