mock
verb (used with object)
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
has mocked
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present perfectof mock (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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However, Musk himself has mocked the comparisons, stating on X: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025
The show has mocked the age of both presidential candidates: Donald Trump, 78, and Joseph R. Biden Jr., 81.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
Amid the fighting in Ukraine, he has mocked Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as a “plywood marshal,” an apparent reference to Shoigu’s hobby of woodcutting.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first leader after it regained independence in the early 1990s, has mocked suggestions that an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin might be reached over Ukraine.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023
There is their handwriting upon the temple wall, upon the granite slab which has mocked at Time; but there is no man to decipher it.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
