The word 'scoffing' is correct and can be used in written English
It means to express disapproval or contempt by mocking or making fun of someone or something. Example: The politician's opponents were scoffing at his latest proposal, calling it unrealistic and absurd.
For at that very moment we were on our first full day in the country, scoffing rounds of Thai food and listening to tales of existential crisis, and the snow was continuing to settle on the tops of the Andes.
I am eating the rabbit," complete with photos of its carcass on her kitchen counter and her cat scoffing the entrails.
Rubio also mixed his hits on Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush with scoffing at those who say he is "too young" or "not rich enough" to run for president.
They used to dismiss fintech as an amateurish attempt to take on a venerable industry, with no hope of disrupting it, but have stopped scoffing.
What may seem unbearably hot to those reared on the bland diets of Europe or the Anglosphere half a century ago is just a pleasantly spicy dish to their children and grandchildren, whose student years were spent scoffing cheap curries or nacho chips with salsa.
Brushing off outsiders' scoffing, they have created stable, prosperous countries with strong institutions.
Although Visa is scoffing a larger share of the pie, the pie is getting bigger and bigger, particularly outside America.
On one evening he was photographed reeling drunkenly out of a trendy restaurant; a couple of days later he was snapped in Soho, scoffing a late-night kebab, again with Mr Evans.Strangely, kebab-eating was felt to be a particularly grievous sin; it showed, mused one journalist, that this really was a Greek tragedy.
As it happens, tax revenues have dropped, so the government is now scoffing a bigger slice of a smaller cake.Despite its chronic deficit, Hanover still has ambitious plans, in the belief that investment will bring more prosperity to the city.
Republicans and Democrats alike were openly scoffing at Mr Perry's prospects.
The left argues that they're actually not ambitious enough; the Center for American Progress, for example, hits Mr Romney for scoffing at the idea of "green jobs": 2.7m of them are "right in front of ya, Mitt".
