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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. showing your contempt by derision;
[syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scoff \Scoff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scoffed (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoffing.] [Cf. Dan. skuffe to deceive, delude, Icel. skopa to scoff, OD. schoppen. See Scoff, n.] To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at. [1913 Webster] Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] God's better gift they scoff at and refuse. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Syn: To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See Sneer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scoffing n 1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "scoffing": Humism, Pyrrhonism, abusive, agnosticism, banter, bantering, blackening, blameful, booing, catcalling, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derision, derisive, derisory, disparaging, doubt, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, incredulity, invective, inveighing, jeering, joshing, judgmental, kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, objurgatory, panning, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, skepticism, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying, vituperative