SCOFFING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scoffing mean? 

• SCOFFING (noun)
  The noun SCOFFING has 1 sense:

1. showing your contempt by derision

  Familiarity information: SCOFFING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOFFING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing your contempt by derision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

jeer; jeering; mockery; scoff; scoffing

Hypernyms ("scoffing" is a kind of...):

derision (contemptuous laughter)

Derivation:

scoff (treat with contemptuous disregard)

scoff (laugh at with contempt and derision)

 Context examples 

Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He had always been irreligious, scoffing good-naturedly at the sky-pilots and their immortality of the soul.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on Heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)