mockingly Definition

mock
verb mocked, mocking

tr & intr
1. To speak or behave disparagingly, derisively, or contemptuously towards someone or something.

Thesaurus: ridicule, deride, scorn, taunt, disparage, insult, jeer, scoff, sneer, tease; Antonym: flatter, praise.
Form: mock at someone (also)
Form: mock at something
2. To mimic someone, usually in a way that makes fun of them.

Thesaurus: mimic, parody, imitate, mime, burlesque, parrot, caricature, ape, lampoon, satirize, send up.
3. chiefly literary
To make something seem to be impossible or useless; to defy, disappoint or frustrate it, as though showing contempt for it.
Example: Violent winds mocked my attempt to pitch the tent

adj

1. False; sham.

Example: mock sincerity
Thesaurus: imitation, artificial, fake, counterfeit, false, forged, ersatz, pseudo, spurious, synthetic.
2. Serving as practice for the similar but real or true thing, event, etc which is to come later.

Example: a mock examination

noun

1. colloq
In England and Wales: a mock examination. Scots equivalent prelim.
2. An imitation; a mockery.
3. An act of mocking.

Derivative: mocker
noun

Derivative: mocking
adj, noun

Disparaging or derisive in speech or behaviour
Thesaurus: derisive, sardonic, sarcastic, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, rude, insulting; Antonym: respectful.

Derivative: mockingly
adverb

Idiom: put the mockers on something or someone

colloq
To spoil or end its or their chances of success.
Example: Well, that's put the mockers on my promotion

Etymology: 1920s.