Thesaurus / mocking
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Spiders keeping me company, traversing invisible filaments, playfully mocking me with their graceful mobility.
ON SLEEPING IN THE LARGEST ORGANISM ON EARTHLEATH TONINONOVEMBER 19, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEThis program enables us to perform the same way but on a digital mock-up.
LEVERAGING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE AND AI TO BENEFIT SOCIETYJASON SPARAPANINOVEMBER 18, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWOutside these specific categories are three modernistic wings — Villanova’s Saddiq Bey, Florida State’s Devin Vassell and Vanderbilt’s Aaron Nesmith — who have been pegged by most mock drafts as worthy of a late lottery pick.
THESE 3 NBA DRAFT PROSPECTS ARE PERFECT FITS FOR THE MODERN LEAGUEMICHAEL PINANOVEMBER 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTFrom 2016 to 2018, Volodymyr Kvashuk worked for Microsoft as a tester, placing mock online orders to make sure everything was working smoothly.
MICROSOFT ENGINEER GETS NINE YEARS FOR STEALING $10M FROM MICROSOFTTIMOTHY B. LEENOVEMBER 10, 2020ARS TECHNICALaid off two years later, she set to work that very day mocking up a Web page for the nonprofit news site she had long toyed with starting — and just kept on reporting.
ROBIN KEMP LOST HER NEWS JOB IN CLAYTON COUNTY, GA. — BUT SHE KEPT REPORTING THE NEWS. IT PAID OFF ON ELECTION WEEK.REIS THEBAULTNOVEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POSTHe stretched out his arms, looked to the heavens and seemed to mock-crucify himself on the notion.
IT BEGAN ON A GOLD ESCALATOR. IT MAY HAVE ENDED AT FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING.DAN ZAK, KAREN HELLERNOVEMBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIn a mock election two weeks ago, the school’s students voted overwhelmingly to reelect the president.
DURING ELECTION WEEK LIKE NO OTHER, TEACHERS HELP STUDENTS MAKE SENSE OF IT ALLJOE HEIM, HANNAH NATANSON, VALERIE STRAUSSNOVEMBER 7, 2020WASHINGTON POSTRivera won her race less than five months after Antulio “Kobbo” Santarrosa, host of “La Comay,” a Puerto Rican gossip show hosted by a life-sized puppet with the same name, mocked her.
FOUR OUT CANDIDATES ELECTED IN PUERTO RICOMICHAEL K. LAVERSNOVEMBER 5, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEHere are just some of the topics that Meyers, Colbert, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and James Corden all mocked.
LATE-NIGHT TV HOSTS EXPRESS SHOCK AT CLOSE ELECTION: ‘I FEEL LIKE I OVERESTIMATED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’EMILY YAHRNOVEMBER 5, 2020WASHINGTON POSTJenny Earnest, audience development directorIn October I watched Boys State, a documentary about the hundreds of teen boys who take part in the über-competitive Texas Boys State mock-government program.
EVERYTHING OUR EDITORS LOVED IN OCTOBERTHE EDITORSNOVEMBER 3, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEWORDS RELATED TO MOCKING
- acrid
- alert
- arrogant
- backbiting
- biting
- bitter
- burlesque
- caustic
- chaffing
- clever
- contemptuous
- contradictory
- critical
- cutting
- cynical
- defiant
- derisive
- disparaging
- double-edged
- exaggerated
- implausible
- incisive
- incongruous
- jibing
- keen
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- mordant
- paradoxical
- pungent
- quick-witted
- ridiculous
- sardonic
- satiric
- satirical
- scathing
- scoffing
- sharp
- sneering
- spicy
- trenchant
- twisted
- uncomplimentary
- witty
- wry
- absurd
- amusing
- asinine
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- camp
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- comic
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- derisive
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- gelastic
- har-har
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- nonsensical
- preposterous
- rich
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- riot
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- scream
- unusual
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- amusing
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- camp
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- comic
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- derisive
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- fantastic
- farcical
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- gelastic
- har-har
- hilarious
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- jocular
- jokey
- joshing
- ludicrous
- mirthful
- mocking
- nonsensical
- preposterous
- rich
- ridiculous
- riot
- risible
- scream
- unusual
- witty
- acrid
- alert
- arrogant
- backbiting
- biting
- bitter
- burlesque
- caustic
- chaffing
- clever
- contemptuous
- contradictory
- critical
- cutting
- cynical
- defiant
- derisive
- disparaging
- double-edged
- exaggerated
- implausible
- incisive
- incongruous
- ironical
- jibing
- keen
- mocking
- mordant
- paradoxical
- pungent
- quick-witted
- ridiculous
- sardonic
- satiric
- satirical
- scathing
- scoffing
- sharp
- sneering
- spicy
- trenchant
- twisted
- uncomplimentary
- unexpected
- witty
- wry
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