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mocking

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


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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

In May, they made a series of social media posts brutally mocking Barca's pursuit of their player to millions of followers, saying they were victims of a "smear campaign".

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

It’s funny, my mother used to look at me with an expression that was neither mocking nor exasperated, merely seasoned, and say, “Baby, not everything needs to be a production.”

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

I expected a mocking tone, but didn’t hear one, so I made myself meet his eyes.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

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

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

Nevertheless, they were taken prisoners amid the mockings and hootings of men and women.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

Then all the by-standers raised a shout of exultation, and began pointing at the ghastly head, with mockings and derisive laughter.

From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Literature and the drama, representing life as it is dreamed by humanity, life as it perhaps may be some day, create an impression which defies the plain daily and hourly mockings of experience.

From The Grain of Dust by David Graham Phillips




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