scoff (at)

verb

Definition of scoff (at)next
as in to shrug off

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  1. shrug off
  2. reject
  3. dismiss
  4. mock
  5. defy
  6. scorn
  7. disobey
  8. flout
Verb
  • Investors mostly shrugged off a weaker-than-expected gain in December retail sales and a higher-than-expected jump in weekly unemployment claims.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Stocks shrugged off inflation concerns U.S. stocks eked out a small gain on Wednesday even though the 10-year Treasury yield touched to its highest since April following the release of the Fed’s minutes.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of shrug off
Verb
  • By March, 2014, all but one of the publishers had rejected the book, and Kim and Freeman parted ways.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The deal, which Biden rejected for national security reasons, may damage future investments and business plans with foreign allies, analysts have said.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of reject
Verb
  • More cases are being dismissed — rising from 41% to 61% — because prosecutors cannot meet the technical requirements, burdensome paperwork and deadlines of the new discovery law.
    Eric J. Gertler, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • To have the charge dismissed, a person must first plead guilty or no contest, agree to a treatment plan and then successfully complete that program.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of dismiss
Verb
  • Former President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, political rivals who have mocked each other for years, sat next to each other Thursday and talked for several minutes, even sharing a laugh.
    Bill Barrow, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2025
  • RuPaul shares Drag Race video of herself slapping Tyra Sanchez after season 2 winner mocked The Vivienne's death RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on MTV.
    EW.com, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of mock
Verb
  • With this 1975 gem of an album, Mitchell offers an intoxicating graduate course in the arts of songwriting, defying expectations and steadfastly refusing to compromise.
    George Varga, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • That’s more than a full percentage point higher than rates were when the Fed started its rate cutting cycle in September, defying conventional wisdom that less tight monetary policy would likely lead to lower bond yields.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of defy
Verb
  • After the Iron Curtain fell, tennis exploded in the former communist countries, where tennis had long been scorned as a pursuit of the bourgeoisie.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Whoever is chosen to replace Trudeau as leader of the Liberals faces a vicious uphill battle to win back voters feeling scorned by the outgoing government.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of scorn
Verb
  • Hutchison is nominally a private company in Hong Kong, but in the Communist Party's system, no entity in the People's Republic can ignore or disobey an order from the ruling organization.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Rosenblatt said in a statement Monday that King would plead guilty to five of those charges, including desertion, three counts of disobeying an officer, and assault on a noncommissioned officer.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of disobey
Verb
  • But while his months of legal delaying actions enabled Trump to prevent the government from holding him legally responsible for his acts, Trump cannot escape moral responsibility for what may have been history’s singularly most selfish effort to flout the rules of American democracy.
    Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2025
  • But the ban was widely flouted, so in 2019 a tougher law was introduced.
    Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of flout
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