Mocking
['mɒkɪŋ] or ['mɑkɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); 'his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air'- Lawrence Durrell .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mock
(a.) Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
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Examples
- Winifred did not notice human beings unless they were like herself, playful and slightly mocking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her impulse was to repel him violently, break from this spell of mocking brutishness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun, mocking and objective, watched and registered everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And her face, too, is visible--her countenance careless and pensive, and musing and mirthful, and mocking and tender. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He looked at me, and laughed to himself in a mocking, bitter way. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Glancing up at him, into his eyes, she revealed again the mocking, white-cruel recognition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The mocking laughter of the Count rang through the darkness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mocking her own desires, she rallied her guests on their early departure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He could not forget Gudrun's lifted, offered, cleaving, reckless, yet withal mocking weight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Thank you for your hospitality, retorted Maurice angrily, for the mocking tone of this scamp was intolerable; but '_Timeo Danaos_. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But his nature was too serious, not gay enough or subtle enough for mocking licentiousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There were three species of mocking-thrush, two of them confined to one island each. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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