Word: scoff
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...serious. Bonds cheated, he lied about it, and we should just scoff at this so-called record. In 1998, at age 33, Lean Barry hit a respectable 37 home runs. Two years later, Bulked-Up Barry smacked 49, then a preposterous 73, followed by three more seasons of at least 45 dingers. His head has visibly swelled, an inflated noggin being a telltale sign of human-growth-hormone...
...little time for talking. "Our editor wants more [stalking]," he explains with the hint of a scoff. "Apparently we don't have enough for the front page...
...rest of the economy. Gates' fortune is part of an engine that creates jobs; Slim's, say critics, is part of an order that sends Mexican migrants across the U.S. border looking for them. And Slim didn't aid his image much last month when he seemed to scoff at the celebrated philanthropy of Gates and Buffett. His priority, he told reporters, was to "accomplish and solve things, rather than giving. That is, not going around like Santa Claus...
...Vonnegut's sincerity, his willingness to scoff at received wisdom, is such that reading his work for the first time gives one the sense that everything else is rank hypocrisy. His opinion of human nature was low, and that low opinion applied to his heroes and his villains alike - he was endlessly disappointed in humanity and in himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that...
...Purists might scoff at entrepreneurship, saying it has no place at a liberal arts college, and that undergraduates should wrestle with life’s big questions now, and later scheme how to make a quick buck...