mock
verb (used with object)
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
had been mocking
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past perfect progressiveof mock.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Super Dave, this idiosyncratic creation, had become the very kind of mass-cultural star, a ubiquitous C-lister for hire, that Einstein had been mocking from the start.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2019
Thereupon they realised that he was not the man whom they sought, and that their mistress had been mocking them.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
“That will I do, Iqalaqala,” he answered—greatly to my surprise I own, for I had been mocking him by reason of his name.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
All night they had been mocking him with their cheerful crackle; they had only been waiting for this chance to torture him.
From The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall
These marching men were the "fools" at whom he had been mocking for something over two years.
From Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair
