All 11 Uses of
mock
in
Anna Karenina
- "But how, Alexey, tell me how?" she said in melancholy mockery at the hopelessness of her own position.†
Part 2 *mockery = something that is ridiculous
- At that moment, when the revelation of everything was hanging over him, there was nothing he expected so much as that she would answer mockingly as before that his suspicions were absurd and utterly groundless.†
Part 2mockingly = in a manner intended to make fun of
- "Why, it's actually you, Levin, at last!" he said with a friendly mocking smile, scanning Levin as he approached.†
Part 1
- Oblonsky could not restrain a slight mocking smile at the sight of Levin.†
Part 1
- "You tell Matvey to do what can't be done, and go away yourself, leaving him to make a muddle of everything," and her habitual, mocking smile curved the corners of Dolly's lips as she spoke.†
Part 1
- The whole evening Dolly was, as always, a little mocking in her tone to her husband, while Stepan Arkadyevitch was happy and cheerful, but not so as to seem as though, having been forgiven, he had forgotten his offense.†
Part 1
- For an instant her face fell, and the mocking gleam in her eyes died away; but the word love threw her into revolt again.†
Part 2
- "Let me ask you, Konstantin Dmitrievitch," said Darya Alexandrovna, smiling her kindly and rather mocking smile, "why is it you are angry with Kitty?"†
Part 3
- She looked at him with mocking amusement.†
Part 4
- "Now, Kostya, you have to decide," said Stepan Arkadyevitch with an air of mock dismay, "a weighty question.†
Part 5 *
- "Yes, now he has laid aside all pretense, and all his cold hatred for me is apparent," she thought, not hearing his words, but watching with terror the cold, cruel judge who looked mocking her out of his eyes.†
Part 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(mock as in: don't mock me) make fun of (ridicule--sometimes by imitating in an exaggerated manner)
or (more rarely): just to make fun or to be ridiculous without targeting anyone as a victimThese senses of mockery come together when a comedian pokes fun at a politician by pretending to be the politician and saying ridiculous things. -
(2)
(mock as in: a mock trial) not real
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, mock can refer to a way of preparing food. Mockers can be an abbreviation for mockingbirds.