Used in a Sentence

mocked

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mocked.

Editorial note

Or found something they did that was extremely embarrassing, and humiliated and mocked them about it for 2 hours.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mocked gathered in one view.

verb

To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.

verb

To mimic, to simulate.

verb

To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mocked.

verb

To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.

verb

To mimic, to simulate.

verb

To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.

verb

(software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.

Example sentences

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Or found something they did that was extremely embarrassing, and humiliated and mocked them about it for 2 hours.

2

Code under test must go through the World API, which is fully and deterministically mocked in tests.

3

We even mocked the like counts et al by polling FB's API from teh server.

4

And Project Loon was alive, but mostly getting mocked by both Wall Street and charities/nonprofits (With Bill Gates being the most visible).

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When people believe things someone else finds silly or repugnant and they are mocked...

6

You mocked the very idea that he might ask such a question.

7

However, given the focus of redux on improving the dev workflow, I suppose database updates/side effects could be mocked out.

8

Being able to explore the scenery and maybe even touch mocked plants/animals.

9

One of the below (I can't remember who) disliked the Wave interface so much they re-mocked it themselves just for fun.

10

I think the chances are good that I could have mocked his so-called-English skills.

11

You can then use the security manager during the test to verify that all IO calls are indeed mocked.

12

I love how this is just a throw-away line in the article and not rightfully mocked for the absurdity that it is and corporatism at its worse.

Quote examples

1

Thus Obama's "pivot to Asia." It has been mocked by Republicans, given the ongoing problems in both Russia and Iraq/Syria (both long-standing Republican policy bad guys).

2

The idea is that you don't want to let methods use any "global" IO access (like System.out or new FileOutputStream ) -- only IO streams that are passed in as arguments (which can then be mocked) -- so you use an annotation processor[1] to prohibit any such use; it's automatically picked up, loaded and used by all IDEs to mark any use of "prohibited operations" as errors while you type.

3

Humanities research often tends to get mocked in debates on public funding: "Why are we, the taxpayers, paying this person to go look through archives in Germany looking for fragments of music by Robert Schumann?" The humanities do not, in general, have "practical application," at least if practical application means monetary value (as it often does).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use mocked in a sentence?

Or found something they did that was extremely embarrassing, and humiliated and mocked them about it for 2 hours.

What does mocked mean?

To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.

What part of speech is mocked?

mocked is commonly used as verb.