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Such messages are unlikely to be beloved of secularists who prefer to scoff at the religious rather than engage with them.

The ratio—there are 492 billionaires in the U.S. and only 1,645 in the world—is nothing to scoff at.

Spirit companies need to tell their PR agencies to stop trying to push them, and consumers should scoff at them.

They make kick ass cocktails, they break up fights, they scoff at the idea of 'girly' drinks.

Like The Hunger Games, TFiOS doesn't scoff at tried and true Hollywood tropes.

The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean.

There was nothing either false or forced about the little exclamation he made, half scoff, half laugh.

They laugh at our music, they scoff at our arts and twist them into obscene mockeries.

I had almost said "fools who came to scoff remained to pray!"

Hence it needs not surprise that they are not very devout worshippers; it is a great wonder they do not openly scoff.

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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scoff, such as: belittle, deride, jeer, mock, reject, and ridicule.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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