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Synonyms and Antonyms of mocking
- team members good-naturedly mocked the coach's familiar bellow
lampooning, pasquinading, satirizing
deriding, gibing (or jibing), ridiculing
aping, copycatting, monkeying, parroting
duplicating, emulating, replicating, reproducing
acting, counterfeiting, dissembling, faking, feigning, pretending, shamming, simulating
elaborating, embellishing, embroidering, exaggerating, magnifying, padding, playing up, stretching
amplifying, enhancing, enlarging (on or upon), expanding, fleshing (out), overdrawing, overstating, putting on
- the fashion gurus loved to mock the famous couple for their unsophisticated clothes
deriding, gibing (or jibing), jeering, laughing (at), ridiculing, scouting, shooting down, skewering
scoffing (at), scorning, sneering (at)
bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, disparaging, pooh-poohing (also poohing), putting down
chaffing, jiving, joshing, kidding, quizzing, rallying, razzing, ribbing, riding, teasing, tweaking, twitting
baiting, barracking [chiefly British], bugging, catcalling, harassing, harrying, hassling, heckling, needling, pestering, ragging, targeting, taunting, tormenting
aping, burlesquing, caricaturing, imitating, lampooning, mimicking, parodying, parroting, pillorying, satirizing, taking off (on), travestying
applauding, approving, commending, endorsing (also indorsing), sanctioning
- a person willing to mock the religious prohibition against working on the Sabbath
mutinying (against), revolting (against)
disregarding, ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, tuning out
brushing (off), dismissing, flouting, pooh-poohing (also poohing), rejecting, scoffing (at), scorning, shrugging off, winking (at)
breaching, breaking, infringing, transgressing, violating
bucking, combating (or combatting), contesting, disputing, fighting, opposing, resisting, withstanding
capitulating (to), conceding (to), deferring (to), goose-stepping (to), serving, stooping (to), submitting (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to)
acceding (to), acquiescing (to), agreeing (to), assenting (to), obliging
attending, hearing, heeding, listening (to), marking, noticing, noting, regarding, watching
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