scoffing

He insisted he had the right to maintain his own septic system, scoffing at a regulation that it be done by an approved firm.

“I’ve followed him since he was on TV,” she said, scoffing at Trump’s star turn on “The Apprentice.”

Yet many people are scoffing at the idea of anyone checking up.

I can hear readers scoffing, but it's true, they're really going that route.

Trump tried to turn that victory into a loss for the overall campaign, scoffing that she had been “crowned queen of the swamp.”