Sentence examples for mocking someone from inspiring English sources

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They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

Asked whether she ever dropped R's or used other eastern New England variants, one young Claremont woman told the researchers, "Only when mocking someone from Massachusetts".

But Blake comes up instead with a caricature whose comic exaggerations safely distance readers from guilty feelings about mocking someone so like an actual, already put-upon person.

Mocking as easy a test meant to detect that particular thing is as dumb as mocking someone for passing a blood test.

S.A.: I had several different bosses during the early years of "Dilbert". They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

No — there is no abstract, relation-independent wrong in mocking someone else's prophet, even to the extent that I think there is wrong in using speech like the N-word.

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We'll mock someone for trying to save the world but we truly want them to save the world.

It is a sneer used to mock someone whose idiosyncrasies – we irrationally believe – outweigh their actual ability as a cricketer.

It's the fact that you so obviously think needing psychiatric help is something to mock someone for.

At her show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday, she glared at the audience, charging past the microphone stand to mock someone for checking a cellphone.

'It should be against the law to mock someone who tries his luck in a foreign language,' begins Costa's journey in a strange land.

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