(n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
(n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
(n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
(v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(2) Mere hypothecation, scoff politicians, rejecting the idea again in parliament yesterday.
(3) And does Ofsted really expect to get away with using the “kids today!” scoff as an actual, presentable-to-parliament reason for these embarrassingly high youth unemployment rates?
(4) Russia continues to scoff at evidence that Syrian government forces carried out the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhun earlier this week.
(5) Brooks worries that part of the problem with society is that we have become conditioned to scoff the marshmallow.
(6) Penny Wong scoffs at 'entertaining but erratic' Barnaby Joyce leading National party Read more The governor of the Reserve Bank Glenn Stevens said at the time there were “few things less likely than Australia defaulting on its sovereign debt”.
(7) Rolf scoffs at those who say the Fight for 15, which the SEIU has underwritten, has failed at its goals of unionizing McDonald’s and getting it to adopt a $15 minimum.
(8) Clegg will insist that the Lib Dems have already replaced Labour as the country's leading "progressive" party and scoff at Tory pretensions to the same label.
(9) Heavily bandaged and unable to walk, she scoffs at the US ambassador's talk of a thorough investigation of the Ahuas raid.
(10) Rodgers scoffs at papers from US military colleges branding them a strategic threat and a Honduran government claim linking maras to al-Qaida.
(11) Although, of course, the easiest thing would simply to be British about all this and scoff.
(12) The Castrol Index, for the mercifully uninitiated, is of course the nonsense ranking scheme cooked up by some bods at Fifa's Castle Greyskull to give people even more of a reason to scoff at them, which is always grand.
(13) "You can't scoff at sewing and it's practicality," asserts Dave Montez.
(14) Sceptics may scoff, and results of an attempt to extract DNA and match it to descendants are not due until Christmas, but Thompson is adamant that the bones now resting in a safe in the archaeology and ancient history department of Leicester University are those of the last Plantagenet, Richard III , who rode out of Leicester on the morning of 22 August 1485 a king, and came back a naked corpse slung over the pommel of a horse.
(15) Presented with official estimates of how many immigrants are in the country illegally, a common response is to scoff.
(16) Morrissey scoffs at Vanessa Redgrave's celebrity humanitarianism in his autobiography.
(17) I used to scoff at the simplicity of equating onscreen violence with its real-world equivalent.
(18) Liberals may scoff, pundits may shake their heads, but Palin herself clearly still wants some form of political life.
(19) His opposite number scoffs at the forecasts and promises his tweaks would be far superior.
(20) Some might call such a day 'The Millennium', but America shies away from the socialist solution, while the rest of the world scoffs but votes with its wallets to adopt our culture.
Scuff
Definition:
(n.) The back part of the neck; the scruff.
(v. i.) To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zusi rather scuffs his free kick, but he's involved again a minute later — getting to the byline and forcing another corner.
(2) Instead he scuffs the ball harmlessly wide when a firmer header would surely have put Ireland a goal up and levelled the tie on aggregate.
(3) By that stage United could have been three in front, for Martial should have scored when Rooney broke clear and unselfishly squared for his better-placed team-mate, only to see the teenager scuff his attempt at a tap-in and allow John Stones to get in the way.
(4) The France international should have scored when a long throw into the Liverpool area fell to the unmarked striker, but Gameiro could only scuff his volley straight at Mignolet who diverted over.
(5) Did Denis Bergkamp, or even Matt le Tissier, ever scuff it?"
(6) Ospina barely had to get a scuff of mud on his kit and Francis Coquelin demonstrated again that he is better suited for the defensive midfield role than Mikel Arteta.
(7) He almost had time to take a touch and shoot, but he swung his hips with the ball attempting a first time shot, and in doing so only managed to scuff it.
(8) He takes the ball down and scuffS it past Handanovic - but onto the left-hand post.
(9) But no repeat of his 2006 Mexican antics: he scuffs the volley, and Cillessen gathers a ball sailing serenely towards the top corner.
(10) He makes space for the shot on his right but scuffs it into the arms of Myhill.
(11) 58 mins French substitution: Christoph Dugarry (21) for Youri Djorkaeff 54 mins Thuram gets a beautiful cross on to the head of Trezeguet, who fails to connect properly in the Senegal box and scuffs it wide.
(12) Anyway, the striker should score, with only the keeper to beat, but he scuffs his shot, allowing Muslera to get something behind it.
(13) He lays it back to Gutierrez, who scuffs his shot wide from the edge of the area.
(14) The winger rounded McCarthy but presented with an open goal could only scuff a left-foot shot into the side-netting.
(15) 16 min Silva scuffs a shot straight at Benaglio from the left corner of the box.
(16) Having toyed with José Holebas on the right, Cuadrado threaded the ball across the Greece area, Rodríguez dummied beautifully and there was the left-back Armero to scuff a shot into the bottom corner via a deflection off Kostas Manolas.
(17) They came from on high, striking branch after branch on their descent as if they were playing pinball, making light scuffs and scrapes with each deflection.
(18) Barrantes again, but he seems to kick the snow as he takes the kick and scuffs the ball weakly to the edge of the box, where the US defense batter it...anywhere.
(19) The ball is played out to Milito in the right channel and he squares it to Maicon, who scuffs it past the challenge of one defender before poking past Valdes from about five yards.
(20) Silva, though, is put off by his team-mate and, rushing in behind, scuffs his shot somewhat.