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26 examples of Scoff in a sentence

Witness Dan Rather's attempts to assassinate W's character on the eve of the 2004 election, or the constant drumbeat that the 2000 election was stolen, although constitutional scholars continue to scoff at such irresponsible drivel.
Likewise, the young Ouimet goes through his own class struggles, being a mere caddie in the eyes of the upper crust Americans who scoff at his attempts to rise above his standing.
The lyrics to some of the songs are rather repetitive and simplistic, but this isn't really apparent when hearing them for the first time or having the flaws pointed out in advance so you are ready to scoff at them.
Her hubby (Adam West, of Batman fame) is there to laugh and scoff, and not much else.
Did they scoff at, say, "Fight Club" for such reasons?
This is the kind of movie you scoff at when you see the trailers on TV for it's theatrical run.
Many will pass it by, others will scoff and tear it apart.
Not only does Godard torture the viewer on purpose, beginning right after he questions Allen about his then recent release of Hannah and Her Sisters with abrupt recurring title cards meant to scoff at Allen's film and segueing without direction into random and exasperatingly repetitive moments where music swells to the point where it drowns out the clearly uncomfortable Woody and displays inexplicable freeze frames of indeterminable screen time.
I have seen on this site where people scoff at the use of Valium as a way to get a laugh because the drug is too weak.
the story of young Joshua questioning life while everyone, including his best friend, parents, and teachers scoff at him is heartbreaking.
NATO and U.S. officials who rail against the illegality of Yugoslavia's atrocities in Kosovo scoff at claims that NATO's bombing might violate international law.
And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February’s rigged elections demonstrate.
Other people in the play scoff at this notion, treating musical subversion as trivial.
Today, energy experts no longer scoff.
Critics scoff that local Communist Party officials manipulate these elections.
Nowadays, many scoff at that notion as too simplistic.
They scoff at his popularity, and note that the Middle East remains intractable, North Korea nuclear, Iraq and Afghanistan unsettled, and Iran difficult.
Israeli security officials, for example, scoff at genital pat-downs, which they say accomplish nothing.
But when parents buy into scares linking childhood vaccines to autism, when media pundits scoff at public-health measures to prevent swine flu from spreading, or when a UK researcher claims that “the scourge of aging is worse than smallpox,” vaccination, epidemic prevention, and screening fall by the wayside.
Many people, for example, scoff at the idea that solar power could be anything but a niche market for enthusiasts or a costly white elephant, over-hyped by environmental do-gooders.
Beware of Wounded LionsCAMBRIDGE – G-20 leaders who scoff at the United States’ proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire.
Indeed, those who scoff at the value of this should remember that ever since Homer sang around the hearth fire about the wrath of Achilles, dreams have been our greatest source of pleasure and inspiration.
Westerners may scoff at such claims, but Egyptians take them very seriously.
We might scoff at the notion of shared values as “idealistic,” not “realistic.”
Rich, well-educated people in advanced economies often ignore or scoff at this cost.
"Well, yes!" he resumed at last, with strange gentleness, "insult me, scoff at me, overwhelm me with scorn! but come, come.