All 17 Uses of
mock
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and Philosophy herself became young, and catching the mad music of Pleasure, wearing, one might fancy, her wine-stained robe and wreath of ivy, danced like a Bacchante over the hills of life, and mocked the slow Silenus for being sober.†
Chpt 3mocked = made fun of
- Once, in boyish mockery of Narcissus, he had kissed, or feigned to kiss, those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him.†
Chpt 8mockery = something that is ridiculous
- He mocked the misshapen body and the failing limbs.†
Chpt 11mocked = made fun of
- In the seventh chapter he tells how, crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him, and the flute-player mocked the swinger of the censer;†
Chpt 11
- Giambattista Cibo, who in mockery took the name of Innocent, and into whose torpid veins the blood of three lads was infused by a Jewish doctor;†
Chpt 11mockery = something that is ridiculous
- A bitter laugh of mockery broke from the lips of the younger man.†
Chpt 12
- You mock at everything, and then suggest the most serious tragedies.
Chpt 19 *mock = make fun of
- His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.†
Chpt 20mockery = something that is ridiculous
- It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!†
Chpt 2
- It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!†
Chpt 2
- She wrung her hands in mock despair.†
Chpt 3
- You mock at it for that.†
Chpt 6
- don't mock.†
Chpt 6
- In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily-painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust.†
Chpt 16
- then, you never really love, Mr. Gray," answered the Duchess, with mock sadness.†
Chpt 17
- What sort of life would his be, if day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with icy fingers as he lay asleep!†
Chpt 18 *
- Or the desire for a new sensation, as Lord Henry had hinted, with his mocking laugh?†
Chpt 20
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.