单词 | mockingly |
释义 | mockinglyadv. In a mocking manner; so as to taunt or ridicule (usually with suggestion of pity and scorn mixed). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adverb] hethelyc1175 hokerlyc1275 a-scoffc1300 scornfullyc1380 bourdfullya1400 japinglya1420 a-scornc1485 bourdly1500 mockishlya1529 mockingly1542 bourdingly1552 deridingly1570 frumpingly1576 floutingly1580 fleeringly?1620 derisively1665 mockfully1834 snook-cockingly1962 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Nasute, wyttyly, mockyngly. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 217 And, he saying, Let vs meete, Let's meete, quoth Eccho, mockingly. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 124 One chanced mockingly, beholding the carriages of the men, to say unto them, What will ye buy? View more context for this quotation 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxxii. 218 I saw him not, till I was mockingly led by the hand into the room by my brother. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. x. 103 Whispers which died out mockingly as he strained his ear after them. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow vii. 184 She, almost mockingly, yet quite happy, let him dote. 1934 C. P. Snow Search ii. iii. 170 Audrey was smiling, a little sadly, a little mockingly. 1993 Sports Illustr. Oct. 74/1 At school other kids laugh at Michael's thrift-shop sneakers, black hightops that they mockingly call cat heads. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1542 |
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