scoffing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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They disputed long, but in the end, Merlin, scoffing, said, 'Wherefore hath he not named his brave calamity? — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
VARIANTS: =No dejó en paz; no dió paz a.= [3] =pluma volteriana.= Writings inspired by Voltaire's ironic scoffing at religious hypocrisy. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
In fact, the truer a thing is the less true it sounds.” “But could anyone possibly eat sixty monks?” objected the scoffing listeners. — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff

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