To treat or speak of with contempt.
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Examples for "mock"
Examples for "mock"
1He's part of his school's debate team, mock trial and student government.
2In my strength you deceived me; in my weakness you mock me.
3Because starting at 1300, we're dealing with a mock mass casualty situation.
4A mock funeral for planet Earth is taking place in Nelson today.
5The mock-up was exposed to the public in a Russian air base.
1So far, though, it's mainly drawn alarm and ridicule on social media.
2Then did the attendant on the tower speak of her in ridicule.
3The grotesqueness of such adornment found frequent ridicule in prose and verse.
4The laugh was turned on him; there was ceaseless ridicule and taunting.
5Boccaccio had made them the subject of ridicule in his popular stories.
1The one will taunt, the other defy; one aggresses, the other retaliates.
2The taunt had long since lost its sting; so I replied, meekly:
3The taunt was quite lost on him; he was calmly regarding Natalie.
4The very children on the streets would taunt my children about it.
5Not able to resist an opening taunt, she added, A fillet knife?
1The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood.
2But the film is, of course, a hoot from beginning to end.
3A moment later they heard the single, unexpected hoot of an owl.
4Nhlanhla Nene's upcoming mid-term budget speech is going to be a hoot.
5Olympos gave a great hoot of laughter, and so did many others.
1The crowds felt free to cheer, jeer, and offer questions and comments.
2No offence is intended; the men jeer out of mere harmless devilment.
3The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
4The omnipresent small boys and soldiers jeer, and some tear the banners.
5They began to jeer and insult him more than the other boys.
1Ms Byrne also made a good-humoured jibe at her relieved family members.
2Except that didn't jibe with what he'd seen of her so far.
3Fuelled by that jibe, Arsenal took the lead in the eighth minute.
4That should jibe with what the hospital receptionist had no doubt reported.
5But the best of the lot at a jibe or a joke
1He was made to flout it and go his own sheep-headed way.
2We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.
3I will make thee yet a lady, whom none shall dare flout.
4Why do you flout one who longs to show you his devotion?
5Russia and China flout political borders, just look at Crimea and Hong Kong.
1Here in his native village there were none to gibe and sneer.
2At the gibe business the German is, perhaps, better than the Briton.
3I ignored the gibe, but felt a twinge at the real possibility.
4The king's gibe stung, and he resolved not to wait for Dragonstone.
5I do not gibe back at a woman who presently will die.
1It has become a shared reflex to deride and belittle such achievements.
2But there was no one there to see or deride their grief.
3We should not be too quick to deride this as a delusion.
4For, to deride Jesus Christ would manifest an inexcusable want of respectability.
5Besides, when he wishes to deride a city, he calls it grass-grown.
6By what right do they deride the falseness of the Pagan Gods?
7Why, then, did I deride Antony for his loyalty to the Triumvirate?
8They sit in the lurking-places of the streets to deride me.
9Three letter-writers your edition of June 16th deride the efforts of the Government.
10The privatised utilities feel more vulnerable: even the rightwing papers routinely deride them.
11After which I went on to deride a 'shoe that pinched'.
12Gone are the days when George Bush could deride him as Ozone Guy.
13They deride the prime minister's claim that it isn't a demotion.
14It's all about connection, even though people deride it as temporary.
15I am not ashamed to own it, let who may deride the act.
16Many deride the contest for serving up mediocrity, while others are enthusiastic followers.
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