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adjective

Mocking adj. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

Mocking thrush (Zool.), any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (Harporhynchus rufus).

Mocking wren (Zool.), any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus.

verb

Mock v. t. (past & past part. mocked; pres. part. mocking)

To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. "To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death." "Mocking marriage with a dame of France."

To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. "Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud." "Let not ambition mock their useful toil."

To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. "Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies." "He will not... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence."

Synonyms: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.

Mock v. i. To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. "When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?" "She had mocked at his proposal."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mocking" Quotes from Famous Books

... loathed or the loathing! O papa, papa! why was I ever placed in hands like these? It must be so sweet, so delightful, to trust and love one's associates, whether natural or accidental! I feel as if Fate had raised up for me this band of mocking fiends, to guard me from my kind, and mar my happiness. Day by day I hate and distrust them more and more—nay, learn to tremble through ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... Algy, presently, in a mocking voice, "might I be allowed to offer you our umbrella, and a pair of goloshes to defend you from the ...

— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton

... to climb was several hundred feet in height. Maskull was more anxious for Joiwind than for himself. She was evidently tiring, but she refused all help, and was in fact still the nimbler of the two. She made a mocking face at him. Panawe seemed lost in quiet thoughts. The rock was sound, and did not crumble under their weight. The heat of Branchspell, however, was by this time almost killing, the radiance was shocking in its white intensity, and Maskull's pain ...

— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay

... black silence of the place there came a startling sound. It was a peal of laughter, loud, evil, triumphant; and, as if it had been a signal, other mocking voices took it up, until the great vault ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... the Saint, this time with a scowl, however. The Saint seemed to return her gaze with a mocking smile. No! That was indeed adding insult to injury! After thirty years unswerving devotion, to ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various

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