scoff

Example Sentences

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If you've lost track of what thrilled - and infuriated - users in 2025, here's a handy recall: a round-up of the year's moments that made the country pause, laugh, or even scoff.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

It’s easy to scoff at such tricks from the outside.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025

A cool $70 million is nothing to scoff at.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025

To grab it, they rarely drink, scoff at work-life balance and are locked in a 24-7 competition to be, or appear to be, the most obsessed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2025

Yet, he remembered times he’d made such a confession to Otto, and his cousin would sneer, and scoff, and say things like, “How do you not know that?”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles