All 3 Uses of
mock
in
Candide
- It is filled with mockery, with inventiveness, with things as concrete as things to eat and coins, it has time for the neatest intellectual clickings, it is never hurried, and it moves with the most amazing rapidity.†
Chpt Intr. *
- Don Fernando d'Ibaraa, y Figueora, y Mascarenes, y Lampourdos, y Souza, turning up his moustachios, smiled mockingly, and ordered Captain Candide to go and review his company.†
Chpt 13
- "Your hanged man mocked the world," said Martin.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(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 victimeditor's notes: These senses of mockery come together when a comedian pokes fun at a politician by pretending to be the politician and saying ridiculous things.