He was appalled at the "scoffing unbelief" of such speakers. Contempt can also be indicated nonverbally by eye-rolling, scoffing. Blackadder declines, scoffing that "people will be eating them next". This perceived change of heart caused considerable scoffing in the popular press. On the scaffold, Lorenzo sees Alicia, next to the British officer, scoffing at him. Initially scoffing, they are both noticeably moved by it.