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scoffer

[skaw-fer, skof-er] / ˈskɔ fər, ˈskɒf ər /






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So that scoffer was a no-show, but we really didn’t have room for him anyway.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2016

No Croft scoffer now, Tony looks with disdain at a "motor villa" he also owns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mencken became a believer in the �bermensch, a scoffer at the great unwashed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The barrel-chested populator of Frogner Park was a mystic, a recluse, and a scoffer at all art�except his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

These critics imagine that a falsehood can be old enough to be venerable, and that to stand covered in its presence is the act of an irreverent scoffer.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green




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