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  • present participle of mock.
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mocking

[mok-ing] / ˈmɒk ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
uncivil
Synonyms


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

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Korean company and its devotees are mocking Apple for hyping a product they’ve had for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

"It's like he's mocking and tormenting us," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

“You’re not getting away!” the soldier said in a tone that would have been mocking if it weren’t so vicious.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they wandered about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler

Guessing the cause, our mockings joined with those Yelled from the shipping as they towed her by.

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh

Big salmon-flies the scoffer buys, Long rods and wading stockings; Unpicturesque he walks in Esk With unbelief and mockings.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 by Various

He knew by this that his mockings and insinuations had been forgiven.

From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris




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