Sentence examples for designed to mock from inspiring English sources

Beaulieu, Cholmondeley, Knollys (pronounced like "Knowles"), and the particularly teasing Featherstonehaugh (pronounced like "Fanshaw"): they appear to be designed to mock the ill-bred, ignorant or foreign.

Thereafter Moore moved to New York and television, making zany political series such as TV Nation and The Awful Truth, which were full of Moore's trademark stunts designed to mock greed and ignorance and humbug.

Mr. Gaba worked with local teenage volunteers on a project designed to mock the production of "authentic" African artifacts, which are often buried to age them quickly, then sold to unwitting tourists.

Last weekend, her Danish People's Party (DPP) placed a controversial advertisement in a national newspaper designed to mock a campaign poster by a group that tries to help jobless immigrants find work.

"Flashback is designed to mock HTTP and HTTPS resources, like web services and REST APIs, for testing purposes.

The Twitter account in question is a somewhat crude - to some eyes offensive - exercise designed to mock Steve Auckland, the Chief Executive of Northcliffe Media, a regional newspaper business owned by the Daily Mail group.

By way of explanation, a little literary history: in the early part of the last century, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a novelist and poet, invented the clerihew, a four-line poem designed to lightly mock a famous personage.

It was almost as if it were designed to be mocked, because whilst you were busy mocking it, Abbott was busy winning an election by a margin that dwarfed Rudd's canonized 2007 victory.

The current study investigated the efficacy of inoculation as a trial strategy designed to counter mock jurors' perceptions that an expert is a hired gun in a criminal trial.

State Britain could be interpreted as a continuation of Haw's protest by other means, in such a place and in such a way as to mock a law designed to curtail our freedom to protest.

Never mean-spirited or malicious, his tales of striving starlets and broken moguls are designed to amuse rather than mock, and "Queen of the Lot" (a sequel to his 2006 film, "Hollywood Dreams") is no exception.