Ridicule vs. Scoff — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ridicule and Scoff
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Ridicule
The act of using words, gestures, images, or other products of expression to evoke laughter or contemptuous feelings regarding a person or thing
A remark that invited the ridicule of his classmates.
Scoff
To show or express derision or scorn
Scoffed at their complaints.
Ridicule
The words or other products of expression used in this way
Was subjected to a torrent of ridicule.
Scoff
To say in a derisive manner
"Are you confused yet?" the instructor scoffed.
Ridicule
To expose to ridicule; make fun of.
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Scoff
To eat (food) quickly and greedily.
Ridicule
(transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
Scoff
To eat greedily.
Ridicule
Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
Scoff
A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
Ridicule
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
Scoff
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
Ridicule
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Scoff
Food.
Ridicule
A small woman's handbag; a reticule.
Scoff
(slang) The act of eating.
Ridicule
(obsolete) ridiculous
Scoff
(intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.
Ridicule
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
Scoff
(transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.
Ridicule
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; - a term lighter than derision.
We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, - the laughable, - and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings.
Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Scoff
To eat food quickly.
Ridicule
Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
To see the ridicule of this practice.
Scoff
To eat.
Ridicule
To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
Scoff
Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
Ridicule
Ridiculous.
This action . . . became so ridicule.
Scoff
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
Ridicule
Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
Scoff
To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; - often with at.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
God's better gift they scoff at and refuse.
Ridicule
The act of deriding or treating with contempt
Scoff
To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest.
Ridicule
Subject to laughter or ridicule;
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Scoff
Showing your contempt by derision
Scoff
Laugh at with contempt and derision;
The crowd jeered at the speaker
Scoff
Treat with contemptuous disregard;
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