mocking

Ever since the success of the 2012 comedy “21 Jump Street,” filmmakers have tried to resuscitate moribund IP by mocking its datedness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Sirianni and Quinn now have to listen to a week’s worth of mocking from laypeople, podcasters, and worst of all, sports columnists at financial newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"They don't have enough land," he said, mocking Russia -- the world's largest country.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

However, he received no answer, save the mocking echo of his own voice ringing back at him through the dark woodlands.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Big salmon-flies the scoffer buys, Long rods and wading stockings; Unpicturesque he walks in Esk With unbelief and mockings.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 by Various

"I fear you felt a little faint during the service, but a sacrament——" "Cease your mockings, you false priest," cried Elsa.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard

The deceived maiden is cast down by the jeers and mockings of her erstwhile companions, and comforted by Siebel.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

We must be the object of their criticism, of their scoffs, of their mockings, and all this apart from the Master.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor