Examples of scoff

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He scoffs at the effrontery of the bridal party, whose members put up a formidable show of might, as if they were military guards.
First, he scoffs at the idea that a language could be made up of a mixture of features from other languages, here the substrate languages.
A few people stayed loyal to the traditional beer, but they risked being scoffed at by their more fashionable friends.
They were scoffed at by those who took them in.
He scoffed at the prospect of the sort of multilateral agreement necessary between powers which were irreconcilable colonial rivals.
Although the poet scoffs and invites us to laugh, the serious implications of his willingness to look at everything afresh is evident.
However, we can, like the teachers, be good sources of feedback to researchers, if only by scoffing at suggested terminology and denying the salience of certain features in our music.
If he had been content merely to detect 'the most inartificial and bungling forgery ever attempted', he scoffed, his task would have been easier and finished long ago.
Architects might scoff at the solipsisms, but who is mocking whom?
No, please do not scoff, because that kind of attitude is exactly how all the demagogues and dictators down the ages got away with it.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We were scoffed at for saying that there had to be some public ownership.
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