mocked

past tense of mock
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Recent Examples of mocked In fact, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six and injured more than a thousand people but hardly rocked the buildings, ironworkers mocked the idea that any terrorist could ever take down those great structures. Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 He was criticised by Guardiola last season for not challenging Virgil van Dijk anywhere near enough at Anfield in February, and he was mocked by supporters at Old Trafford in January after he was kept quiet by Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire. Sam Lee, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 After Allied forces invaded Normandy, the cover of this magazine was mocked up in Bayeux-style stitching. John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026 Some might argue that the film’s niceness, its poignant vibe of celebration and gratitude, is a tellingly apt fit for the band’s music, which was sometimes as mocked for its Top 40-friendly, Britpop neatness as it was beloved by others. Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026 Mel Gibson has issued an apology amid backlash over his recent appearance at FanExpo Canada, where the Oscar winner mocked an ASL interpreter while walking on stage to attend his retrospective Q&A. Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026 Barney & Friends, the enormously popular and widely mocked PBS series about a singing, dancing purple dinosaur, is the obvious touchstone for the children’s-show-as-hellscape in the new movie Buddy. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 Trump has all but severed America’s system of alliances, mocked and bullied Ukraine’s president, and showered praise upon Kim Jong Un. Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026 Much of the vitriol apparently stems from the developers releasing GTA VI without physical copies of the game, a decision that was roundly mocked and derided last month. Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mocked
Verb
  • Jules Dassin’s Rififi (1955) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956) further refined the formula, while a number of decidedly sillier capers in the ’60s both parodied and advanced the genre, helping set the stage for the modern Ocean’s movies.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
  • These polyester fits have also been parodied in video skits, where comedians put on an all-over polyester print outfit, like a wolf T-shirt and galaxy pants, and parody the stereotypical nerdy kid.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Other would-be demonyms, such as Unisian, United Statesian and United Statian, were similarly ridiculed.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Paris’ Eiffel Tower, for instance, was ridiculed for decades before becoming arguably one of the most iconic and well-loved pieces of architecture in the world.
    Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Jeanie Buss also wants proof that Joey and Janie Buss disobeyed the 2017 court order, along with an order requiring them to show cause of why they should not be held in contempt of court.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Once upon a time, but not so long ago, there was a woman who disobeyed her father by loving another man.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • We’ve been copied, we’ve been imitated, we have been pushed to the back.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Still, Nixon created a blueprint for presidential lawlessness that Trump imitated and greatly expanded.
    Elizabeth Holtzman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • All three projects—the ballroom, the arch, and the Kennedy Center—may soon be moving forward simultaneously, red tape cleared (or ignored).
    Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
  • What mattered was that the project ignored the fact that a ship is nothing but the tip of a very long logistical, regulatory, and infrastructure spear.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Mocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mocked. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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