What is another word for mocks?

Pronunciation: [mˈɒks] (IPA)

The word "mocks" is a verb that means to ridicule or mimic someone in a derogatory or sarcastic manner. Synonyms for "mocks" include derides, taunts, sneers, ridicules, jeers, scoffs, belittles, and insults. All of these words describe actions taken towards someone that are intended to make them feel small, powerless, or embarrassed. While these actions may be taken in jest or in fun, they can also be extremely hurtful and leave lasting scars. When we speak to others, it is important to use language that is respectful, kind, and affirming. Choosing to use positive words and expressions can help to build strong relationships and create a more positive and compassionate world.

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  • Equivalence

    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
      derides.
  • Forward Entailment

    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
      ridicules.
  • Independent

What are the hypernyms for Mocks?

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Usage examples for Mocks

To starve for want of power to work is bad; to starve for want of work is worse; but to work and yet starve, to work a long, long day without obtaining the bread that should be its natural reward, is a third and worst degree of misfortune, for it mocks the fitness and equity of things, and seizes the mind like a wrong.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Sleep mocks at death: when weary of the earth We do not die-we take an upper berth.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
How he mocks at holy things!
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

Famous quotes with Mocks

  • You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
    Bono
  • He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
    Grover Cleveland
  • National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
  • There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
    Walt Whitman
  • Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)
    Paul Klee

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