All scoffing synonyms
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S s noun scoffing
- despisement — contempt; despisal
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- causticness — The state or quality of being caustic.
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- despites — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- mordacity — biting or given to biting.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- impiousness — Quality of being impious.
- gibe — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- jeering — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
adj scoffing
- flipper — a broad, flat limb, as of a seal or whale, especially adapted for swimming.
- derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- ironic — using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony: an ironic novel; an ironic remark.
- double-edged — having two cutting edges, as a razor blade.
- ironical — pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.
- cynical — If you describe someone as cynical, you mean they believe that people always act selfishly.
- freethinking — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
- gally — to frighten or scare.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.