Synonyms:
jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing
Meaning: showing your contempt by derision
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe
Meaning: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
Usage examples
I will not scoff.
Yesterday you showed an intelligent interest in my problems and asked intelligent questions. You did not scoff, as others might have done.
We sometimes see students destined for the Christian ministry also with all their religion so without root in themselves that a session in an unsympathetic class, a sceptical book, sometimes just a sneer or a scoff, will wither all the promise of their coming service.