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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The single star was painted in berry juice, as was the bear, which looked so porcine that Mexicans who were struggling to protect California from Yankee rogues mocked it as more pig than bear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"To be mocked and called names when she is in such a crisis is shocking, absolutely shocking."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
Obinze checked his BlackBerry often, too often, even when he got up at night to go to the toilet, and although he mocked himself, he could not stop checking.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
