mocking

"They don't have enough land," he said, mocking Russia -- the world's largest country.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

She often does it while deflecting the mocking remarks of rambunctious colleagues Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, who try to throw off her arguments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

After seeing a stream of comments interpreting it as mocking the security forces, she deleted it quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

Olanna had expected Mama to dance and look at her with mocking eyes, but the lined face was dour, the smile as she hugged Odenigbo was strained.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A #nursewho hashtag emerged on Twitter, attached both to attacks on the casting and ironic mockings of the attackers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2017

"I fear you felt a little faint during the service, but a sacrament——" "Cease your mockings, you false priest," cried Elsa.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard

We must be the object of their criticism, of their scoffs, of their mockings, and all this apart from the Master.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

Cruel mockings may severely try those who fear neither the gibbet, nor the stake.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee

No taunt, no smile mingled with their surprise, for Hetty had a character and a manner too saintly to subject her infirmity to the mockings of the rude and ferocious.

From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper