mock-heroic
adjective
imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action.
mock-heroically
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a word derived from
mock-heroic.
Example Sentences
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She put her back against the door in a blaze of triumph, and said mock-heroically, 'No one shall leave this room till supper's served.'
From A Practical Novelist by John Davidson
“Oh, blood, Iago, blood!” she exclaimed, mock-heroically, then burst into the merriest laugh that one could care to hear.
From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by George C. Hazelton
Olympias: Underplot in his verses alludes, mock-heroically, to the fabled begetting of Alexander the Great. mantygers.
From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot
