Sentence examples for scoffer from inspiring English sources
The word "scoffer" is correct in written English
It is used to describe someone who mocks or ridicules something, often in a dismissive manner. Example: "The scoffer laughed at the idea of climate change, dismissing the scientists' warnings." Alternatives include "mocking person" or "derider."
The Palestinian literary critic Edward Said saw the public intellectual as "the scoffer whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma, to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations".
He offers himself as Crusoe, as Prospero and as "the scoffer lounging in doublet and hose" in an upstairs window of an inn and spitting pomegranate seeds onto Chaucer's pilgrims as they pass below.
The traditional view that he was a detached scoffer is deeply wrong: he was skeptical not of morality but of much theorizing about it.
There do seem to be three distinct peaks of modern disbelief, moments when, however hard it is to count precise numbers, we can sense that it was cool to be a scoffer, trendy to vote "No!" One is in the late eighteenth century, before the French Revolution, another in the late nineteenth century, just before the Russian Revolution, and now there's our own.
The country's best-known scoffer has spurred one of the most heated discussions of belief, religion and immortality in years.
He is not the first president to stand so accused: in the election of 1800, one clergyman charged Thomas Jefferson with "disbelief of the Holy Scriptures," and Abraham Lincoln battled the suggestion that he was a "scoffer of Christianity".
Instead, scoffers with spines to rival Mantel's should pick on the scary monsters in their own backyard.
At its birth, the LDV – which scoffers decided stood for "Look, Duck and Vanish" – had no uniforms, few weapons and a confused mission.
The professional snack scoffers shunned the miniature fish suppers and burgers so popular at the time, plumping instead for the deliciously retro cheese straw: "solid enough to provide a good foil to alcohol and its only drawback is the threat of crumbs falling on the carpet".
For years, Bayfield has protected Florence from "the mockers and scoffers", soothing her anxieties about the shortage of chives in her potato salad ("unconscionable I know, but they tell me there is a war on"), and ensuring that any criticism of her singing is couched in euphemism ("One word – authenticity!").
And attention, scoffers: just try finding a cut-rate loft in Williamsburg.
