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n. - Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision; Someone who eats food rapidly and greedily.

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  • "But," he continued, "I am not particularly flattered at being called a scoffer at my own people --"
  • The scoffer is the product of the limited knowledge characteristic of what Engels called "metaphysical materialism."
  • T. skoptes (skoptes means 'scoffer' or 'mocker'), and the other
  • 021: 024 The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.
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