Act of insulting or making light, often using caricature.
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Examples for "mocking "
Examples for "mocking "
1 Ain't nobody better. Those words were said in an almost mocking tone.
2 More often than not the police car moves on, to mocking laughter.
3 Again the mocking growl which had so disturbed me in the corridor.
4 The tone was more mocking than fierce; but Felicia shrank under it.
5 She accused my book of mocking everything from domestic abuse to PTSD.
1 Though affectionate mockery is nothing new, the golden age was relatively recently.
2 It seems such a mockery ; but if she wishes it; and Arthur-
3 Thirty-two percent thought he would make a mockery of the political process.
4 I could sense it the same way I'd felt its mockery earlier.
5 But perhaps Falcao should be the subject of sympathy rather than mockery .
1 So far, though, it's mainly drawn alarm and ridicule on social media.
2 Then did the attendant on the tower speak of her in ridicule .
3 The grotesqueness of such adornment found frequent ridicule in prose and verse.
4 The laugh was turned on him; there was ceaseless ridicule and taunting.
5 Boccaccio had made them the subject of ridicule in his popular stories.
1 Not long ago, Cockell's claims would have been greeted with scientific derision .
2 Five sessions to undo five years of war! Radke snorted in derision .
3 Something I forgot along the way, he said, not hiding his self - derision .
4 There was something outrageous in the open derision of the last words.
5 Then she laughed in derision and called out loudly to the guards:
1 The madman at this moment was scoffing at the justice of God.
2 Well, you need some sort of diversion when you're scoffing your soup.
3 It was so strange to me not to be scoffing and despising.
4 The crowd that had gathered listened to him without any discernible scoffing .
5 I wag the laughing stock, a subject of scoffing and ridicule, often.
1 Six years later, it's still fun to make fun of Google Glass.
2 You can always make fun of yourself in just about any situation.
3 Payne grinned, relishing the opportunity to make fun of his best friend.
4 You constantly make fun of me, don't think I don't know it.
5 My men used to make fun of Eddie because of his car.
1 Apple rejected the app, citing rules against making fun of public figures.
2 It was non-scripted, non-focused, I have no problem making fun of myself.
3 Allegedly likes making fun of Adele's weight on his daily morning show.
4 I was never further from making fun of things in my life.
5 She rather suspected that Mr. Harrison was making fun of the project.
6 She wonders now if he thought she was making fun of him.
7 We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them.
8 He enjoys, among other sports, making fun of me for being homeless.
9 She is always making fun of me and calling me a baby.
10 First idea I had was that you were making fun of me.'
11 It snarled and licked at her, making fun of her futile efforts.
12 He was not quite sure if they were making fun of him.
13 He was willing to swear that she was making fun of him.
14 They are making fun of a girl named Versailles as they leave.
15 Was it making fun of myself for making fun of other people?
16 He was making fun of me, I saw, because I sought shelter.
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