mocker

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In the first, Hackman’s local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, already cemented in our brains as vicious, reveals himself to be a shrewd mocker of the written word as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Life itself, then, could affront and ridicule and even torment the provocateur: the mocker brutally mocked by personal reality.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2021

Could Barbara Ehrenreich, fourth-generation atheist, proud socialist, and mocker of brightness and smiles, have found religion?

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2014

It's like in the UK, if you are a rod or a mocker, you can be a little bit mod and a little bit rocker.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2012

Hermotimus, the elderly enthusiast, whom the mocker meets hurrying with his books to the philosophic school, has been an ardent student for twenty years; he has grown pale and withered with eager thought.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel