Exempel på mocked

• 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.

• They might be detested or mocked, but they could certainly not be ignored.

• The main actor, the ever-escaping grapevine louse, mocked all efforts to arrest it.

• The opponents not only dared criticise the most eminent representatives of the ruling power, but even mocked and ridiculed them.

• They all reduce the grammar of the mocked variety to a stereotyped representation of the language.

• He mocked elaborate church ceremonies, and he altered the nobles' external appearance, which was based on ecclesiastical custom, by ordering them to shave their beards and doff their kaftans.

• This emphasis was mocked by contemporaries.

• Shaw spotlights the chanchadas, cheaply produced musical comedies that mocked the pretensions of the upper classes.