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Scoffing is a much utilized tool, seen not just in forums where religion is debunked, but in political exchanges and of course discussions of Intelligent Design.
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The 17th-century novel "The Plum in the Golden Vase," whose author is only recorded as "the Scoffing Scholar of Lanling," dramatizes the frictions against the backdrop of China's decline under the Wanli Emperor.
The Perils of Polygamy Raymond Zhong 2011
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Scoffing at environmentalists is national sport, of course, until pollution hits close to home.
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Scoffing – the scornful treatment of what is worthy – is based on an illusion whereby falsehood is made to look large and important and truth small and stupid, not by thorough and studied reason, but mere belittlement.
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Scoffing and grinning and all you can do is smeck and give people bolshy cowardly tolchocks when they can't give them back.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Scoffing at environmentalists is national sport, of course, until pollution hits close to home.
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Seems my Scoffing (geddit?) at English claims to have got the whole Bordeaux bottle rolling was ill-founded.
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Seems my Scoffing (geddit?) at English claims to have got the whole Bordeaux bottle rolling was ill-founded.
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Scoffing and simple mindedness is like being constantly drunk.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Seems my Scoffing (geddit?) at English claims to have got the whole Bordeaux bottle rolling was ill-founded.
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