| 单词 | scoff |
| 释义 | scoff I. 1. 2. < subject to the scoffs and guffaws of his fellows — C.M.Dudley > 3. < turn the whole matter into a scoff and call it a trifle — Encore > II. intransitive verb < one of those attending the lecture … had come to scoff, but was converted — Lucile E. Hoyme > — often used with at < we may scoff at him in health, but we send for him in pain — B.N.Cardozo > transitive verb < how I have scoffed them in my heart — A.C.Gunter > Synonyms: < in consequence of this illiteracy, he scoffed at education and considered the professional scrivener an object of ridicule — L.C.Douglas > < scoffed at the idea that modern man might have developed before Neanderthal — L.C.Eiseley > jeer stresses a coarse derisive laughter < before she had yanked me halfway across the floor, men and women were jeering at her, calling her a cradle robber — Conrad Richter > < they would laugh at his warning. They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles — Stephen Crane > gibe stresses taunting whether derisive or good-natured < gibe and catcall at a speaker for his political sentiments > < hoot and gibe at her — Carl Jonas > fleer emphasizes derisive grins, grimaces, and laughter rather than utterances < listened with a fleering mouth — Joseph Hergesheimer > < saying nothing but fleering unpleasantly at any and all remarks > gird stresses an attack marked by scoffing, gibing, or jeering < warned us, instead of girding at general prejudices, to employ our sagacity in discovering the latent wisdom that commonly exists in them — Walter Moberly > sneer, of all these terms, carries the strongest implication of ill-natured or caustic contempt, usually connoting the use of irony or satire augmented by an insultingly contemptuous facial expression, tone of voice, or general manner < his attitude … has been often unduly critical, occasionally to the point of sneering denunciation — F.E.Hirsch > < they used to sneer and to jibe at the Redskin Fife and Drum Ensemble — W.B.Ready > < too many teachers just sneer at TV and refuse to look at it — S.H.Horton > flout stresses a contempt of something shown by refusal to heed it or by denial of its truth or force < scorn or neglect of institutions, and characteristic flouting or reversing of convention — F.J.Hoffman > < the law of supply and demand cannot be flouted indefinitely — C.T.Lanham > < believes that our present immigration laws flout fundamental American traditions and ideals — President's Commission on Immigration & Naturalization > III. transitive verb 1. 2. intransitive verb < clothes' moth starts scoffing the moment she hatches — Monsanto Magazine > IV. |
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