Example sentences for: mocking

How can you use “mocking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The case against Dowd, taken up lately by Michael Wolff in New York magazine ("she is derisive, mocking, hyperbolic, bitchy") and by Dan Kennedy in the Boston Phoenix ("Call her our most celebrated bad columnist") was most cogently laid out in a 1992 piece by Katherine Boo in the Washington Monthly . At the time, Dowd was still a reporter, following the presidential campaign after having covered the Bush and Reagan White Houses.

  • Dole could never have predicted that in this, his grimmest hour, after all these years of morosely pursuing the presidency, he would come to enjoy as his particular friend a chronically cheery former footballer who could broadcast an enthusiasm for gimcrack economic theory in such a way that one could not tell if he was embracing it or mocking it.

  • New York 's Mark Stevens imagines a young Rauschenberg mocking the exhibition's "pumped-up size."

  • A highlight: After Post Editor Pete Hamill was fired in 1993, the staff revolted and published a protest issue mocking the new owner.

  • "[W]omen mocking men by calling into question their masculinity is also classified as sexual harassment," the paper added.


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