- present participle of mock.
mocking
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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
As the final whistle blew, social media lit up with a flood of mocking posts.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Some videos make it onto Brovdi's social media accounts -- where he is followed by hundreds of thousands -- with cartoony music and mocking captions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
A lawyer representing Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is calling for the destruction of all copies of an extremely limited-edition, Operation-style board game mocking SGA for ‘foul baiting.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
She made mocking air quotes with her fingers as she spoke the last word.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
"You shall be treated to ... ironical smiles and mockings."
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Thus with merry laughter, and jests, and mockings, they carried him up the street to the tower called the Red Sea, and there locked him up, well guarded.
From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold
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
He knew by this that his mockings and insinuations had been forgiven.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
Vocabulary lists containing mocking
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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ACT Reading Test: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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