scoffs Synonyms
scoffs Meaning
scoffs
to eat something greedily, snatch entry 1 sense 2, to treat or address with derision, an object of scorn, mockery, or derision, to eat greedily, to show contempt by derisive acts or language, an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt, an expression of scorn or mockery, seize, jeer, ridicule
scoffs Sentence Examples
- The professor scoffed at the student's simplistic hypothesis.
- The politician's opponents scoffed at his claims of altruism.
- He scoffed at the idea of going to a restaurant, preferring to cook at home.
- The critic scoffed at the movie's lackluster plot and wooden characters.
- She scoffed at the suggestion that she was afraid of heights.
- The doctor scoffed at the patient's self-diagnosis, dismissing it as unfounded.
- The athlete scoffed at the reporter's question about his supposed rivalry.
- He scoffed at the charity's pleas for donations, believing them to be insincere.
- The skeptic scoffed at the paranormal claims, demanding concrete evidence.
- The environmentalist scoffed at the politician's inaction on climate change, calling it a betrayal of the future.
FAQs About the word scoffs
to eat something greedily, snatch entry 1 sense 2, to treat or address with derision, an object of scorn, mockery, or derision, to eat greedily, to show contemp
devours, gulps, gobbles, inhales, ravens,crams, slops, scarfs, wolfs, overeats
picks, pecks,nibbles,
The professor scoffed at the student's simplistic hypothesis.
The politician's opponents scoffed at his claims of altruism.
He scoffed at the idea of going to a restaurant, preferring to cook at home.
The critic scoffed at the movie's lackluster plot and wooden characters.
