scoff at

His foreign policy team understands this, which is why administration officials scoff at the idea of providing Ukraine with actual security guarantees.

A smaller part is nothing to scoff at, either.

My instinct is to scoff at that idea.

Most independent economists would scoff at that level of taxpayer investment, in part because the local audience for minor league baseball already is served by another California League stadium eight miles from the proposed Ontario ballpark, and in part because entertainment spending within the city would be diverted from, say, the mall or the sports arena to the ballpark.

Speaking of, Dan clearly should have had some sort of accommodation: The physical component of that challenge, on a beach, no less — was nothing to scoff at.