mock
verb (used with object)
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Many of them will have mocked Phillips for saying the same a year earlier.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023