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What is the adjective for mocking?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb mock which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

mocking
  1. derisive or contemptuous
  2. teasing or taunting
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “A mocking comment on the proverbial mindlessness of self-centered honeymooners shifts the focus of attention to hilarious incidents of the sort.”
      “His mocking banter in this place that was the home of detestable death seemed as out of place as the tinkle of a pianola in Purgatory.”
mock
  1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A one-man tribute wearing a mock spacesuit is not necessarily the most flattering honor.”
      “He gasped with mock surprise at not receiving an invitation to the wedding of the couple he had lampooned for years.”
mockish
  1. (obsolete) mock; counterfeit; sham
mockworthy
mockable
  1. Able to be mocked.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I can tell by his tone that this is a mockable offence but, like a Chinaman in a French restaurant, I have no idea what he's talking about.”
      “What I do know reminds me of the strident sort of PC left-winger who was embarrassingly mockable, and no one with any sense hung out with.”
      “This insular satire, this xenophobic comedy, said that foreigners, insofar as it recognized them, are funny, mockable for the sin of deviating from the white, English norm.”
mockful
  1. (obsolete) mocking
mocked
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