Sentence examples for scoffingly from inspiring English sources
adverb
In a scoffing manner; scornfully.
He stops, and laughs scoffingly, not at zoophilia, but at his time allowance.
By 1592 his success with such early crowd-pleasers as Titus Andronicus, Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Henry VI cycle had earned him the enmity of a rival writer, the red-bearded pamphleteer Robert Greene, who wrote scoffingly of "Shake-scene" as an "upstart crow beautified with our feathers".
It would be easy enough for a doctrinaire free-marketeer to imagine, scoffingly, a possible solution — a government agency to continue to finance silent films well into the age of talking films.
In the encounter between Shepheard and his sister's new husband, the standard program of the 60's -- "ending poverty, housing the homeless, educating the ignorant and eliminating tyranny" -- is scoffingly dismissed by Shepheard: "The first two parts of the program are pollution generators and the second two are projections of the Western enlightenment".
In his initial chagrin, Mr. Obama scoffingly asked whether he's supposed to "vet the vetters".
