Word Meanings - BEMOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.

RIDICULER
One who ridicules.
MODESTLY
In a modest manner.
MODESTY
1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
BEMOCK
To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.
MODEST
1. Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man. 2. Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly
RIDICULE
1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe. 2.
IMMODESTLY
In an immodest manner.
IMMODESTY
Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.
IMMODEST
1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate. 2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder
OVERMODEST
Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.