0 past simple and past participle of mock
1 to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way:
The 1881 presidential campaign coarsened : journalists, unfettered by libel laws, caricatured, mocked, and even insulted the once revered general.
And surely the incongruities of proper language, rituals, and behaviour being mocked by ' improper' beings must have been viewed as humorous.
His nonconformism attracted a countercultural audience whom he mocked and a college audience whose left and liberal sensibilities he delighted in offending.
Clearly this was happening when clergymen were rough-musicked, or jostled, or mocked in effigy.
Unregulated words often mocked authority, questioned policy and trimmed reputations.
The normally tee-totalling baker, devastated by his loss and mocked publicly as a cuckold, gets drunk and refuses to bake until his wife returns.
Neo-orthodoxy mocked its complacency, liberation theology its timidity.
Under cover of the margins, he subtly mocked the trial and its outcome.
