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Meanings of mock in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ridicule"
Examples for "ridicule"
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
The one will taunt, the other defy; one aggresses, the other retaliates.
2
The taunt had long since lost its sting; so I replied, meekly:
3
The taunt was quite lost on him; he was calmly regarding Natalie.
4
The very children on the streets would taunt my children about it.
5
Not able to resist an opening taunt, she added, A fillet knife?
1
The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood.
2
But the film is, of course, a hoot from beginning to end.
3
A moment later they heard the single, unexpected hoot of an owl.
4
Nhlanhla Nene's upcoming mid-term budget speech is going to be a hoot.
5
Olympos gave a great hoot of laughter, and so did many others.
1
The crowds felt free to cheer, jeer, and offer questions and comments.
2
No offence is intended; the men jeer out of mere harmless devilment.
3
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
4
The omnipresent small boys and soldiers jeer, and some tear the banners.
5
They began to jeer and insult him more than the other boys.
1
Ms Byrne also made a good-humoured jibe at her relieved family members.
2
Except that didn't jibe with what he'd seen of her so far.
3
Fuelled by that jibe, Arsenal took the lead in the eighth minute.
4
That should jibe with what the hospital receptionist had no doubt reported.
5
But the best of the lot at a jibe or a joke
1
He was made to flout it and go his own sheep-headed way.
2
We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.
3
I will make thee yet a lady, whom none shall dare flout.
4
Why do you flout one who longs to show you his devotion?
5
Russia and China flout political borders, just look at Crimea and Hong Kong.
1
It has become a shared reflex to deride and belittle such achievements.
2
But there was no one there to see or deride their grief.
3
We should not be too quick to deride this as a delusion.
4
For, to deride Jesus Christ would manifest an inexcusable want of respectability.
5
Besides, when he wishes to deride a city, he calls it grass-grown.
1
Here in his native village there were none to gibe and sneer.
2
At the gibe business the German is, perhaps, better than the Briton.
3
I ignored the gibe, but felt a twinge at the real possibility.
4
The king's gibe stung, and he resolved not to wait for Dragonstone.
5
I do not gibe back at a woman who presently will die.
Usage of mock in English
1
He's part of his school's debate team, mock trial and student government.
2
In my strength you deceived me; in my weakness you mock me.
3
Because starting at 1300, we're dealing with a mock mass casualty situation.
4
A mock funeral for planet Earth is taking place in Nelson today.
5
The mock-up was exposed to the public in a Russian air base.
6
But the best take on the story remains this vital, mock-Gothic take.
7
The society organizes mock stock trading competitions and students offer investing lectures.
8
It feinted right and then left in mock attacks, toying with her.
9
The president has said, with mock relief, that she voted for him.
10
For another mock battle?' he asked as he placed the tray down.
11
Saline-treated and mock-infected control groups were also studied at the same time.
12
The sound of clapping emerged from behind, followed by a mock 'Bravo!'
13
However, in a mock-shock-exploitation movie, that concept is itself an uneasy one.
14
Yitzhak said in a mock whisper, Please don't tell on us, Judd.
15
Last year, helicopter pioneer Stan Hiller located this mock-up languishing in Florida.
16
Hohn's mock-heroic quest has a serious subtext: the trashing of the oceans.
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