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scoffingly

ADVERB
  1. in a disrespectful and mocking manner
    `Sorry,' she repeated derisively

How To Use scoffingly In A Sentence

  • “Mony thanks to ye,” he said, scoffingly, “for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.” The Black Dwarf
  • “And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?” said the old dame, scoffingly. The Black Dwarf
  • ` ` Mony thanks to ye, 'he said, scoffingly, ` ` for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.' ' The Black Dwarf
  • Mony thanks to ye," he said, scoffingly, "for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi 'that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days. The Black Dwarf
  • Ask one of them of what religion he is, he scoffingly replies, a philosopher, a Galenist, an [6648] Averroist, and with Rabelais a physician, a peripatetic, an epicure. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • I find not myself concerned in his ensuing talk, but only in one reflection on the words of the Scripture, and the repetition of his old, putid, and shameless calumny, p. 108, until we come to p. 126, where he arraigns an occasional discourse of mine about the necessity of holiness and good works; wherein he hath only filched out of the whole what he thought he could wrest unto his end, and scoffingly descant upon. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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