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  • noun Plural form of scoffer.

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Examples

  • The problem with that is, the scoffers are willingly ignorant.

    More Zaniness From Poland - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The scoffers are the only ones who have ever noticed the incongruity, and they do not count, since they probably would not attend, anyway.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • There were only present some eight ladies, including the four above mentioned We four "scoffers" hired a hack and rode sixteen miles over the hill, before 10 A.M., to be denied admittance to church or school-house Rev. Philo Matthews had found us shelter on the threshing-floor of a fine barn, and we found about three or four hundred of the farmers, and their wives, sons, and daughters, assembled.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • While the "scoffers" get Tamiflu, you guys can lock yourself up in tight little spaces that are just great for the transition of disease!

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • This personal opened with a reference to "scoffers" in the last days.

    The Real Truth 2009

  • "scoffers" here are not necessarily atheists, nor do they maintain that the world existed from eternity.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • But, replies Peter, the flood came in spite of their reasonings; so will the conflagration of the earth come in spite of the "scoffers" of the last days, changing the whole order of things (the present "world," or as Greek means,

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Yet perhaps Mr. Obama knew something the scoffers didn't.

    A Cloying Hymn Of Praise Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • The professional snack scoffers shunned the miniature fish suppers and burgers so popular at the time, plumping instead for the deliciously retro cheese straw: "solid enough to provide a good foil to alcohol and its only drawback is the threat of crumbs falling on the carpet".

    How to cook perfect cheese straws 2011

  • The 2,500 miles of cable, "about as thick as a man's index finger" and weighing 1,500 tons, broke repeatedly; storms lashed the project and scoffers proliferated.

    When History Rides the Waves John Steele Gordon 2010

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