17 adjectives to describe scoff

It is but Byron's brutal scoff repeated"Carotid-artery-cutting Castlereagh.

With such speeches, smoothly made, She found methods to persuade Margaret (who, being sore From the doubts she'd felt before, Was prepared for mistrust) To believe her reasons just; Quite destroy'd that comfort glad, Which in Mary late she had; Made her, in experience' spite, Think her friend a hypocrite, And resolve, with cruel scoff, To renounce and cast her off.

What, can your grace endure these cursed scoffs? MARIUS.

Never laugh at the misfortunes of others, although they seem in some sort laughable 65th Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion Chapter vii.

"It lies, then," he retorted, with a fierce scoff.

They showed me how, by three-fold scoff, When cares of life perplex us, To smoke, or sleep, or fiddle them off, And scorn the ills that vex us.

I repent of all the foolish scoffs With which I crossed her.

Men, who can never be funny, Scoff at the funny man's dower; Lands where it seldom is sunny Find little praise for a flower.

But soon her master, as he hasten'd off With his new purchases, the infant caught, And bid the mother, with a heartless scoff, Fling it away: said he, "'Tis good for nought; None of this lumber can we have, the road Is long enough to tread without a load.

Prove that my partial strain adopts one lie, No penitent more mortified than I; 30 Not e'en the wretch in shackles doom'd to groan, Beneath the inhuman scoffs of Williamson.

Your insolent scoff shall not go by unpunish'd.

Gilbertus Cognatus labours much, and so doth Erasmus, to vindicate Lucian from scandal, and there be those that apologise for Epicurus, but all in vain; Lucian scoffs at all, Epicurus he denies all, and Lucretius his scholar defends him in it: "Humana ante oculua foede cum vita jaceret

The truth of many a brilliant narrative of brilliant exploits has of late years been triumphantly demonstrated, and the shallowness of the sceptical scoffs with which little minds have carped at the great minds of antiquity has been in many instances decisively exposed.

If we see them together, perhaps we shall hear the senior scoff at his younger companion as a poetic dreamer, as a hunter after phantoms that never were, nor could be, in nature: then may follow a homily on the virtues of experience, as the only security against disappointment.

In like mannerif we leave out of view some wholly harmless jestswe meet hardly any trace of invectives levelled at communities (invectives which, owing to the lively municipal spirit of the Italians, would have been specially dangerous), except the significant scoff at the unfortunate Capuans and Atellans (18) and, what is remarkable, various sarcasms on the arrogance and the bad Latin of the Praenestines.(19)

Gretchen, he called!On yon threshold he stood; Amidst all the howling of hell's fiery flood, The scoff and the scorn of its devilish crew, The tones of his voice, sweet and loving, I knew.

Ye were first outlaws, then ye proved thieves, And now all carelessly ye scoff at death.

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