mock
verb (used with object)
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
mocked
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past participleof mock.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof mock.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mockverb (used with object)to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
Example Sentences
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More devastating, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, mocked Trump’s plan to charge tolls.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
But in her outraged response, Stuckey became most emotional over an aside in which I mocked her for denying that dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
A lawyer for the firm has repeatedly mocked the regulator's threats of further fines or enforcement action with AI-generated cartoon images of hamsters.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Charles Dickens’s “Little Dorrit” mocked the civil service with the fictional Circumlocution Office, which was dedicated to the science of “how not to do it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
His wild laughter mocked the world and everyone he had ever known.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
