Word Meanings - MOCKINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

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• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• MOCKISH
  Mock; counterfeit; sham.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MOCKABLE
  Such as can be mocked. Shak.
• MOCKADOUR
  See MOKADOUR
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MOCKLE
  See MICKLE
• MOCKING
  Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive. Mocking bird , a North American singing bird , remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with
• MOCKADO
  A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. Our rich mockado doublet. Ford.
• MOCKAGE
  Mockery. Fuller.
• MOCKER
  A mocking bird. Mocker nut , a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. 2. A deceiver; an impostor.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• DERISION
  1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MOCKERY
  1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MOCKINGLY
  By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• HUMMOCKY
  Abounding in hummocks.
• HUMMOCKING
  The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
• MALLEMOCK; MALLEMOKE
  See MOLLEMOKE
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• BEMOCK
  To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.
• HAMMOCK
  Columbus, in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of 1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• SMOCK
  from the root of AS. sm to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a