mock
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.
to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit.
to challenge; defy: His actions mock convention.
to deceive, delude, or disappoint.
a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
something mocked or derided; an object of derision.
an imitation; counterfeit; fake.
Shipbuilding.
a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing.
Also called mock mold . bed (def. 23).
Origin of mock
1synonym study For mock
Other words for mock
Other words from mock
- mock·a·ble, adjective
- mock·er, noun
- un·mocked, adjective
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How to use mock in a sentence
In the back of their patrol car, with her hands cuffed behind her, she mocks their cowardice.
A Brief History of the Phrase 'F*ck the Police' | Rich Goldstein | August 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf your 11-year-old mocks you by making a cawing voice, upturn his dinner plate and mock his mocking voice.
It’s Not Just the Vaccines. Jenny McCarthy’s New Book Offers More ‘Lessons’ | Tim Teeman | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEvery time the thermometer drops, another anti-science politician mocks climate change as a fallacy.
From Snowy Atlanta to Sunny Sochi, It's All About Global Weirding | Scott Bixby | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe usually just playfully mocks me in a surfer bro voice anytime I lose my keys or get the muchies.
Can You Smoke Weed if Your Friend Is a Cop? | The Daily Beast | September 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere's a subgroup that both attends and mocks, but it's tiny.
Love deep as the sea as a rose must wither,As the rose-red seaweed that mocks the rose.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationThe mantel, carved in delicate wreaths, is boarded up, and an unsightly stove mocks the gilded ceiling.
Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston ChurchillThen the Prince laughed a strange grating laugh, like one who mocks at himself.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) CrockettFortune mocks us; she turns us on her wheel: she raises and abases us at her pleasure, but her power is founded on our weakness.
She mocks him brazenly, with her magic potency over him, in a scene of the most subtle cruelty.
Modernities | Horace Barnett Samuel
British Dictionary definitions for mock
/ (mɒk) /
(when intr, often foll by at) to behave with scorn or contempt (towards); show ridicule (for)
(tr) to imitate, esp in fun; mimic
(tr) to deceive, disappoint, or delude
(tr) to defy or frustrate: the team mocked the visitors' attempt to score
the act of mocking
a person or thing mocked
a counterfeit; imitation
(often plural) informal (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations
sham or counterfeit
serving as an imitation or substitute, esp for practice purposes: a mock battle; mock finals
Origin of mock
1- See also mock-up
Derived forms of mock
- mockable, adjective
- mocker, noun
- mocking, noun, adjective
- mockingly, adverb
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