mocked

past tense of mock
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Recent Examples of mocked Golf's media establishment mocked defectors as sellouts and eagerly counted down the days until LIV's collapse. Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026 In the early 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty wrote stories denying the famine that Joseph Stalin’s forced-collectivization policies were causing in Ukraine and mocked journalists who reported the truth. James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026 Knight, who was bleeding from the mouth, mocked Omega’s terminator taunt. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The post mocked a Dooley operative whose wife attempted suicide after accusing former NBC host Matt Lauer of rape. Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 27 July 2026 Instead of treating her and Povich’s pregnancy struggles with care, the pair were widely mocked in the media and on late-night shows, including on In Living Color, which had premiered on Fox in 1990. Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026 Fans rightfully mocked the dancing cars mounted on robot arms that played during an inexplicable diversion on Universal Studios Hollywood’s Studio Tour. Robert Niles, Oc Register, 21 July 2026 Hilton was quickly mocked, with online commenters pointing out that authentic Mexican street tacos are served in soft tortillas, cooked up by street vendors, and that the hard-shell varieties found in a fast-food chain do not count as the real deal. Linh Tat, Daily News, 15 July 2026 Rushdie has spent almost 40 years under threat of death from Islamic extremists after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him, claiming Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses blasphemed Islam and mocked the Prophet Muhammad. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mocked
Verb
  • In Mel Brooks’ parody fashion, the Spaceballs team parodied Marvel’s Hall H panels with an expansive Spaceballs Cinematic Universe, stretching across 180-degree screens in the room.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Maury Povich is looking back on being parodied by Jim Carrey on In Living Color.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • That, coupled with the fear of being ridiculed, may do the trick.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
  • Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Ulysses expresses sorrowful regret for having disobeyed Zeus’ Law – essentially the Golden Rule – in sacking Troy.
    Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026
  • However, all of the city’s fire stations seemingly disobeyed the mayor by lowering their flags.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The University of Chicago, University of Illinois and Columbia University soon imitated this approach.
    Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
  • When fraudsters adopt voice cloning, banks respond with checks that test for the subtle traces cloning leaves behind, and when defenders turn to the study of behavior, criminals begin to rehearse how ordinary conduct can be imitated.
    Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • The remarks struck a nerve in a country grappling with persistently high youth unemployment and quickly became a rallying cry for a generation that says it feels ignored by those in power.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • There's another trendline as well — patients who delay coming in until their symptoms are so severe they can't be ignored.
    Durrie Bouscaren, NPR, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Wisconsin Republicans did the same last year, and similar efforts have been raised in other states.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Mocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mocked. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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