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• v  treat with contempt
• v  imitate with mockery and derision
• s  abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
  her mocking smile
• s  playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• Quick-witted but never showy, mocking but never cruel, warm but never maudlin, Barker may have let his hair go white (with the network's approval), but he never aged.
• Our hero, who goes by the self-mocking name of Humbert Humbert, is a pedophile.
• What really put Khaled on the world stage was his decision to host an interfaith conference in Copenhagen in March 2006, after the controversies over the Danish cartoons mocking .

• mock
• bemock
• derisive
• gibelike
• jeering
• taunting
• teasing
• quizzical

News & Articles

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• PBT: Clippers reportedly impressed by Hollins
  The Knicks drew mocking for having four players who were at least 38 years old before the season began. New York hasn’t exactly set itself up to be a young team next year, but the antiques are mostly gone. Kurt Thomas was waived. Rasheed Wallace retired.
  June 15, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Video: Microsoft again uses Siri to bash the iPad
  Microsoft apparently thinks that its Siri-mocking strategy is a winner because it’s come out with yet another ad that cleverly uses Apple’s voice-enabled personal assistant to bash the iPad. The ad takes the iPad to task for not having a zoomable home screen, for lacking an SD card slot and for not being able to multitask as efficiently as Windows RT. As 9to5Mac points out, that last claim is ...
  June 14, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News
• Marcus Camby returning to Knicks
  The Knicks drew mocking for having four players who were at least 38 years old before the season began. New York hasn’t exactly set itself up to be a young team next year, but the antiques are mostly gone. Kurt Thomas was waived. Rasheed Wallace retired. Jason Kidd is coaching the Nets. But Marcus Camby…
  June 14, 2013 - NBC Sports: ProBasketballTalk

Quotes

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• Franck Ribery in msnbc.com
  Everyone in the whole world is mocking us now,winger Franck Ribery said on television hours before training even started. "I'm gutted, because we're not playing football any more." "The French Football Federation did not at any time...
• Stephen Colbert in International Herald Tribune
  I had a clear, clear command to everyone involved: 'No cynicism,'said Colbert. "We're not mocking Christmas specials. We're doing MY Christmas special. And that was the aesthetic we tried to bring into it. Like, we're really doing this. I...