Sentence examples for half mocking from inspiring English sources
"half mocking" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to describe that something or someone is only partially mocking - not wholeheartedly. For example: She replied with a half mocking laugh.
"But hey," he adds, half mocking, "would I like to be the guy in the movies who has a dream and everybody is against him, but at the end he gets the girl and gets the trophy?
Instead, the youngest climbed up on the sink to duel with his older brother, who half engaged in play and half mocked his brother.
People with two-and-a-half homes mocking three-homers for ostentation - it's a rather precarious basis for feeling that yours is the right way of being rich, isn't it?
England too capitulated in the face of Mitchell Johnson's bowling last summer and sometimes we half- mocked their tailenders for a number of meek dismissals.
The poet of Queensbridge is also notorious for his high-profile squabbles with rival Jay-Z, and Beyonce's other half famously mocked Nas on "Takeover".
He began, as he often does, half-mocking the campaign in which he is a leading strategist.
"My plane got in at six this morning," he says, in a tone half-mocking, half-endorsing the implicit boast: real men don't get jet lag.
"And I never touched a gun, not once," she concludes in only half-mock regret.
"Why would you do this elitist shit?" asked comedian Kristen Schaal in half-mock outrage.
"I haven't written any horror fiction for a long time," he says, his voice rising in half-mock distress.
They raise the question with only half-mock horror: Could Nicole Polizzi — a k a Snooki — be far behind, she who came to personify beach-side, drunken, disorderly conduct on MTV?
