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mocking

[mok-ing] / ˈmɒk ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
uncivil
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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

She often does it while deflecting the mocking remarks of rambunctious colleagues Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, who try to throw off her arguments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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

All her life she’d felt hard and angry; her mother always criticizing her, Lexie and Trip always mocking her.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

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

In Palace Yard Perkin Warbeck sat in the stocks before the gate of Westminster Hall for a whole day, enduring innumerable reproaches, mockings and scornings.

From Westminster The Fascination of London by Mrs. A. Murray Smith

Ye may endure their mockings, and all the hard measure which ye get her, for it shall be recompensed unto them.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

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




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