0 past simple and past participle of scoff
1 to laugh and talk about a person or idea in a way that shows that you think they are stupid or silly:
Those who scoffed ten years ago now acknowledge its success.
The suggestion that the rich will grow rich and the poor will grow poorer is scoffed at.
The engineers, whom we have heard so much lauded to-day, scoffed at that idea, and said they must have their tube, and they did.
We were scoffed at for saying that there had to be some public ownership.
They were scoffed at then as a wild-cat scheme, but have made no small contribution to solving the traffic problem during this century.
This problem is so serious it must not be scoffed, jeered or laughed at.
One hundred pounds has been scoffed at this afternoon, but it is not a very small sum.
The creation of happiness for the greatest number is an ideal that he followed, and it is not to be scoffed at.
