MOCKS Synonyms: 229 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mock

as in imitates

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of team members good-naturedly mocked the coach's familiar bellow

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as in ridicules

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter the fashion gurus loved to mock the famous couple for their unsophisticated clothes

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as in disobeys

to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of a person willing to mock the religious prohibition against working on the Sabbath

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mocks

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noun

plural of mock

as in jokes

a person or thing that is made fun of they made a mock of the new recruit in front of the whole unit

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as in copies

something that is made to look exactly like something else obviously, the "priceless" Grecian urn that is destroyed in the movie was a mock

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We are presented with a few potentially hissable villains, including an attorney for the state (Christian Rubeck) who mocks the Gheorghius’ faith and a frostily inflexible social worker, Gunda (Ellen Dorrit Petersen). — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026 Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is designed as an action flick as well as a portrait of a family dealing with tragedy and an insider’s look at an insular community that mocks harmful stereotypes without perpetrating them. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026 And finally, another one of Wang’s creations mocks Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine’s infamously cringe sexts by showing the pop star losing his mind to a picture of Jolly’s derriere in an Instagram DM. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026 Trump routinely mocks Newsom and refers to the governor using a derogatory nickname, while Newsom taunts the president with frequent social media posts. — Darlene Superville, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 By and large, the General Assembly mocks his policy proposals and ignores his leadership. — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2026 Too often international agencies are established with seemingly noble purposes but end up descending into blatant politicization that mocks their original intent. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 The Los Angeles Dodgers insulted their Catholic paying customers by honoring a drag group that parades around as nuns and mocks their religion. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026 Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is demanding all copies of Unethical Hoops, a new Operation-style board game that mocks his foul-drawing reputation, be destroyed. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026

Noun

Idzik and fellow walk-on Jordan Garside would reserve a lecture hall in the business school, write their mocks on the whiteboard and throw a two-person draft party. — Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Early on in the pre-draft process, Stirtz was a popular match for Denver in mocks. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 9 June 2026 Others do multiple mocks so one of them might be right or entire seven-round mocks that incorporate draft-night trade predictions. — Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026 For all his royal status, Hamlet is a figure of resistance, who targets, mocks, humiliates, and ultimately kills a king. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026 According to the mocks, Sampson’s Cougars, the tournament’s second seed, and top-seeded Arizona could have three or four players taken among the 60 drafted. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026 But most mocks have Concepcion taken between picks 20 and 40. — Austin American Statesman, 23 Feb. 2026

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Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Over the weekend, movie-theater chain AMC Entertainment accused Robinhood of creating an unauthorized market that imitates trading in AMC shares through its overseas platform without the company’s approval.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026

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Fiction and reality braid in clever ways as Highsmith ridicules her visitor and is inspired by him, imagining a sinister plot (which could in fact be real).

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
Though Claudius ridicules Hamlet for his emotional vulnerability, his grief drives him to avenge his father and emerge as a hero.

— Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026

Definition of ridicules

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People don’t do what they’re supposed to, or someone betrays someone else for money or power or spite, or maybe a dragon just disobeys its rider and decides to murder a prince.

— Brian Grubb, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
Contempt of Congress is a federal misdemeanor in which an individual willfully disobeys or impedes a congressional investigation.

— Connor Greene, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

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Researchers at the company tested how AI models might act as computer worms, programs that move between devices and leave copies of themselves behind, among everyday household gadgets.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
An army of Janeites, no doubt wielding their worn copies of Sense and Sensibility, are marching into cinemas around the world to watch an adaptation for a whole new generation.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of copies

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In another nod to Scream, Cheri Oteri parodies Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers as the comically unethical news anchor Gail Hailstorm.

— Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
Ben Hania’s film before that, 2020’s Oscar-nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin, parodies the art world’s fetishization of refugees.

— Alexander Durie, Time, 3 Mar. 2026

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Any strategy that ignores that skepticism is unlikely to survive the next election or to be funded by the Congress that is likely to emerge from it.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
But the unbridled embrace of aquaculture as a sustainable answer to feeding the planet ignores some very real costs.

— Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignores

Noun

Taylor offered higher pay to workers who met management’s targets.

— Christoph Trattner, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
Since April 1, brands and retailers have been able to set regenerative sourcing targets through BCI in preparation for the new standard’s full implementation.

— SJ Studio, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

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