mocking
adjective
showing ridicule, contempt, or derision.
mockings
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pluralof mocking.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A #nursewho hashtag emerged on Twitter, attached both to attacks on the casting and ironic mockings of the attackers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2017
Cruel mockings may severely try those who fear neither the gibbet, nor the stake.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they wandered about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
Then all the by-standers raised a shout of exultation, and began pointing at the ghastly head, with mockings and derisive laughter.
From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders, I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
