mocking

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOCK'ING, participle present tense Imitating in contempt; mimicking; ridiculing by mimicry; treating with sneers and scorn; defeating; deluding. MOCK'ING, noun Derision; insult.
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