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• Most Americans don't know 'WC' and many Brits mock 'bathroom' but almost everyone understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.From the entry bathroom
• The politician was mocked in the press for his reliance on spin rather than facts.From the entry spin
• Americans don't know 'WC' and Brits mock 'bathroom' but everyone usually understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.From the entry lavatory
• The boundlessness of the night sky mocks our sense of scale.From the entry boundlessness
• They used paper and cardboard to mock up the layout for the control panel.From the entry mock up
• Everyone here is mocking OOP, but I think he has a point.From the entry oop
• White Americans engaged in cultural appropriation when they performed dances involving blackface and mock Native American regalia.From the entry cultural appropriation
• The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.From the entry cartoon
• Some nerve! Off with their heads! shouted the master of ceremonies with mock ferocity, while the audience laughed.From the entry off with someone's head
• He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.From the entry disdainful
• They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.From the entry mimicry
• The glut of moronic, Roganesque dude-bro podcasts are long overdue for mocking, but this one is toothless.2024 November 17, Zach Vasquez, “Saturday Night Live: Charli xcx has fun in otherwise middle of the road episode”, in The Guardian, →ISSN…. From the entry toothless
• Some clips show TikTokers mock an unsuspected gym-goer for their form.2022 March 18, Becca Monaghan, “'This one absolutely disgusted me:' Man puts gym influencer on blast”, in Indy100, archived from the…. From the entry GymTok
• The Romans had mock battles in the Colosseum, which was pumped with water.2022 May 4, Everest Media, Summary of Martin Liedtke's The Holy Grail of Our Flat Earth, abridged edition, Everest Media LLC, →ISBN. From the entry antiquitech
• Fellow students mocked him on his first day for knowing only Ucwalmicwts, a dialect of St̓át̓imcets.2021 June 11, Rhianna Schmunk, “Catching tears”, in CBC News. From the entry St̓át̓imcets
• He adds, in telling and still mocking paratheses: “(I was moved)."2020, Matt Colquhoun, Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and the Fisher-Function. From the entry parathesis
• Reeve Edgar le Sherman, honest and fair," he mocked, "defrauding his own fellows for gain.2020, Vesper Stamper, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry wooler
• The theory, which came to be known as the swaddling hypothesis, was roundly and rightfully mocked.2020 May 5, Jennifer Wilson, “The Circle”, in The Nation. From the entry swaddling hypothesis
• There's no need for name-calling,” she says in a mock scolding tone.2020 October 18, Diane Anthony, The Remnant, Authors 4 Authors Publishing, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry one is a poet and doesn't know it
• Being a VSCO girl is often embraced and mocked by those who subscribe to the trend.2019 November 14, Leah Harper, “The rise of the VSCO girl – and how to spot one”, in The Guardian. From the entry VSCO girl
• When Dan Quayle misspelled potato, the whole world mocked: ‘He can’t even spell potato!2018, Gyles Brandreth, “Spelling Is Big Potatoes”, in Have You Eaten Grandma? Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation…. From the entry Quaylism
• The wind seems to mock me by always getting worse when I'm upset.2017, J Lenni Dorner, Fractions of Existence (The Existence Series; 1), →ISBN, pages 65 and 359. From the entry ancraophobia
• The world mocked me when i sent my resumes to consulting firms and investment banks.2016, Sidin Vadukut, Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese. From the entry poda patti
• “Tank, the Chumpette, forgot to put up his chair again,” she says in mock desperation.2016 September 1, Andrea K. Milinki, Cases in Qualitative Research: Research Reports for Discussion and Evaluation, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry chumpette
• The students here mock and belittle the Campus Safety officers, who are really just good, different guys.2016, September Vaudrey, Colors of Goodbye: A Memoir of Holding On, Letting Go, and Reclaiming Joy in the Wake of Loss, Tyndale House…. From the entry Dwight Schrute
• In my head, I mocked and re-mocked his parting words to us.2015, Paullina Simons, Lone Star, HarperCollins Publishers, page 279. From the entry remock
• She tried to make this sound hipsterishly arch and mocking, but she wanted to know.2014, Brian Morton, Florence Gordon. From the entry hipsterishly
• Half of the mock jurors that were told he had insurance were told to disregard that information.2013, Jonathan M. Golding, Colin M. MacLeod, Intentional Forgetting: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry disregard
• The gap between rich and poor is growing in ways that mock American middle-class egalitarianism.2010 December 4, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States”, in Newsweek. From the entry egalitarianism
• I saw this brand of mock meat highlighted by another member in FairPrice.2010 November 16, Liang Yi, “mock meat-any feedback?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry mock meat
• His novels mocked and maligned the French middle class, ironizing it into oblivion.2007 December 30, Lee Siegel, “The Blush of the New”, in New York Times. From the entry ironize
• She's easy to mock because she's so uncool, or rather, unchilly.2007 November 19, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry unchilly
• There are places all over where someone or some group has declared a sort of mock sovereignty.2006 November 1, Alex Chadwick, “'Lonely Planet' Explores Micronations”, in NPR, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2025. From the entry micronation
• Unabashed, the Killock tilted his head to one side in mock examination, puckering his bulbous nose.2005, Bill Hawkins, The Other Cockleshell Heroes, page 32. From the entry killock
• We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym.2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry bemuscled

Meaning of mock

1. noun An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
2. noun Mockery; the act of mocking.
3. noun A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.

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How do you use mock in a sentence?

Mock is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!”

What is a short sentence with mock?

“The newspaper published a political cartoon mocking the mayor.”

What does mock mean?

Mock means an imitation, usually of lesser quality.