mocking

Example Sentences

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You wonder if its designers—the Tokyo-based firm SANAA—were mocking the pristine white box of the contemporary museum gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Though many of those “Chuck Norris Facts” were facetious and mocking, there were just as many that served as unironic celebrations of the man.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

That was unlike stars such as Betty White or William Shatner, who gladly played into the mocking of their personas and propelled themselves into second careers in the process.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

If I batted .247, I don’t think I’d be mocking of anyone else.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

The first great, practical achievement of the new science was Newcomen’s steam engine of 1712—the very engine Swift was presumably mocking when he complained about mills being built where there were no rivers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton