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mockingly

[ UK /mˈɒkɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a disrespectful and mocking manner
    `Sorry,' she repeated derisively
  2. in a disrespectful jeering manner

How To Use mockingly In A Sentence

  • Concerned the President does not view gay men and women as "human beings whose lives, loves, and families are equal" to his own, Solomnese mockingly offered to "reintroduce" the LGBT community to their capricious ally in the White House. RedState
  • He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’
  • ‘I am one-hundred-percent male, my dearest,’ he said mockingly.
  • On ‘Stronger Than Me’ she berates her passive boyfriend, calls him a ladyboy and mockingly inquires: ‘Are you gay?’
  • 'An anoother book coes it a "Hammer-dry-ad,"' said David, mockingly, 'soa theer yo are.' The History of David Grieve
  • A fire burning low in the grate was the sole light of the apartment; its beams flashed mockingly on the somewhat showy Versaillese furniture and gilding here, in style as unlike that of the structural parts of the building as it was possible to be, and probably introduced by The Woodlanders
  • The line his old enemy had e-mailed him returned, mockingly: Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Then, in a kind of mockingly Hegelian negation of negation, the very dimension of otherness is cancelled: one does it with oneself. The new feminists: lipstick and pageants
  • It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully.
  • ‘Thank you,’ I said curtsying mockingly as we both laughed.
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