All 19 Uses
mock
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Sons and Lovers
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- His mockery always hurt her; it was too near the reality.
Chpt 2.9 *mockery = ridicule
- repeated Mrs. Morel mockingly.†
Chpt 1.3
- "An' niver mind if he puts his foot through yer," said a mocking voice from behind.†
Chpt 1.4
- Tall and elegant, with the clearest of clear, transparent olive complexions, hair as black as jet, and such grey eyes—bright, mocking, like lights on water at night.†
Chpt 1.5
- "Tu-tu-tu-tu-terterter!" he mocked.†
Chpt 1.5
- "Oh, cowards and bullies!" they repeated mincingly, mocking her speech.†
Chpt 1.6
- Men have such different standards of worth from women, and her dear things—the valuable things to her—her brothers had so often mocked or flouted.†
Chpt 2.7
- "I'm sure!" she exclaimed, sniffing with mock scepticism.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- She was a handsome, insolent hussy, who mocked at the youth, and yet flushed if he walked along to the station with her as she went home.†
Chpt 2.8
- "Thanks so much, darling," she said mockingly.†
Chpt 2.8
- He sat at the head of the table, his mobile face, with the eyes that could be so beautiful, shining with tenderness or dancing with laughter, now taking on one expression and then another, in imitation of various people he was mocking.†
Chpt 2.9
- She felt that when his eyes were like this, hard with mocking hate, he would spare neither himself nor anybody else.†
Chpt 2.9
- "Did it, pore thing!" she mocked.†
Chpt 2.9
- With Clara he took on a smart, worldly, mocking tone very antagonistic to Miriam.†
Chpt 2.9
- Fanny mocked, hugely delighted.†
Chpt 2.10
- "You'd better run after Miriam," mocked Clara.†
Chpt 2.12
- She met his eyes, that were angry, mocking, and hard as steel.†
Chpt 2.12
- "Caw!" she mocked.†
Chpt 2.14
- ' mocked the nurse.†
Chpt 2.14
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) Less commonly, mock can refer to a way of preparing food. Mockers can be an abbreviation for mockingbirds.