0 present 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:
However, we can, like the teachers, be good sources of feedback to researchers, if only by scoffing at suggested terminology and denying the salience of certain features in our music.
I can remember people scoffing at the idea that we would find teachers in this way, but we have found 5,000.
It is no good scoffing that only a third of the membership protested.
I was not in any sense scoffing at the idea or prospect of inward investment, which is very welcome and essential.
That sounds a lot, but there need be no scoffing; it can undoubtedly be done.
He is treating a very serious issue in a scoffing way.
Despite the scoffing that takes place, social workers are still of paramount importance to this country in many areas.
They are attacking these building societies and scoffing at them.
