scoffer

Example Sentences

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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

But it is precisely to this supposed "scoffer" that we owe the first interpretation of the profound and pathetic significance of the book, lost sight of in controversies about its miracle.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel