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verb ADV. bitterly, ruthlessly, scornfully | gently, softly ‘Too scary for you?’ he mocked softly. | subtly The play subtly mocks the conventions of courtly love. PREP. at He mocked at her hopes of stardom. | for mocking him for his failure | with She mocked him with her smile. PHRASES faintly/slightly mocking a faintly mocking smile
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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mock sth up
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to make a model of something in order to show people what it will look like or how it will work
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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adj.
artificial:
It was a mock attack.
verb
scorn:
You must not mock your leaders.
Simple Definitions
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mock
formal to laugh at and say unkind things about a person, institution, belief etc, to show that you do not have a high opinion of them. Mock is a formal word - in everyday English people usually say make fun of:
• The press mocked his attempts to appeal to young voters. • She was mocked by other pupils in her class. • You shouldn’t mock the afflicted! (= you should not make fun of people who cannot help having problems - used especially ironically , when really you think it is funny too )
make fun of somebody/something
to make someone or something seem stupid by making unkind jokes about them:
• Peter didn’t seem to realize that they were making fun of him. • It used to be fashionable to make fun of the European Parliament.
laugh at somebody/something
to make unkind or funny remarks about someone or something, because they seem stupid or strange:
• I don’t want the other kids to laugh at me. • People would laugh at the idea nowadays.
poke fun at somebody/something
to make someone or something seem silly by making jokes about them, especially in a way that is funny but not really cruel:
• a TV series that regularly poked fun at the government • He’s in no position to poke fun at other people’s use of English!
ridicule
formal to make unkind remarks that make someone or something seem stupid:
• Catesby ridiculed his suggestion. • His ideas were widely ridiculed at the time. • Scientists ridiculed him for doubting the existence of the greenhouse effect.
deride
formal to make remarks that show you think that something is stupid or useless - often used when you think that the people who do this are wrong:
• Some forms of alternative medicine – much derided by doctors – have been shown to help patients. • the system that Marxists previously derided as ‘bourgeois democracy’
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