unscoffed
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Adjective[edit]
unscoffed (not comparable)
- Not scoffed or jeered at; unmocked; often with at.
- 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba:
- Thy shame unrumoured, and thy suit unscoffed
- 1848, Henry Whitelock Torrens, Madame de Malguet: A Tale of 1820, volume 3, page 219:
- […] who is to officiate here, do I ask? who is certain of lifting up his voice in the sacrifice of the mass anywhere in this land unscoffed at and unreviled?
- (slang) Uneaten.
- 2007, Kate Charles, Secret Sins:
- With Peter in residence, there wasn't likely to be much left unscoffed in the kitchen; […]