To treat or speak of with contempt.
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Examples for "mock "
Examples for "mock "
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.
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 In the tall and barrack - like houses candles gleamed in honor of Masaniello.
2 In the evening, the change from barrack - room to veldt was most delightful.
3 The foundation of another barrack for officers was begun in this month.
4 I detest having it in that great barrack of a dining-room downstairs.
5 It was half-past three when the deputies were locked into the barrack - yard .
1 He said it with a level stare that dared me to scoff .
2 It's easy to scoff at these claims as outlandish and distinctly American.
3 But when he tries to persuade them to come home, they scoff .
4 Jacobson knows many people, including some of her relatives, scoff at QAnon.
5 The wild sublimity of Aeschylus became the scoff of every young Phidippides.
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 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.
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.
6 Saddam has chosen his moment to again flout international law with great care.
7 People began to flout the law and there was increasing pressure for reform.
8 Yet builders are allowed flout these laws with impunity every day.
9 Mr Andrews said he was worried people would flout the rules.
10 Can Brown flout the normal rules of politics and profit from a recession?
11 A wonderful recital; but none of us voyagers durst flout it.
12 But it was always possible that someone might flout this custom.
13 But the time had passed when the peers could flout an aroused nation.
14 Niagara, however, might flout them if it pleased; they could do without Niagara.
15 It might be dangerous to flout such a sign from heaven.
16 The editor, at any rate, did not sneer and flout him.
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