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Definition of Mockingly
1. Adverb. In a disrespectful jeering manner.
2. Adverb. In a disrespectful and mocking manner. "`Sorry,' she repeated derisively"
Definition of Mockingly
1. adv. By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
Definition of Mockingly
1. Adverb. said, written or done with the intent to mock, or ridicule. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mockingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mockingly
Literary usage of Mockingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse: In A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild by Hans Staden, Albert Tootal, Richard Francis Burton (1874)
"... where they intended killing me, they called mockingly after tne that they
would not fail to appear at my master's hut, to drink over me and to eat me. ..."
2. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
""Here on this mole-hill," ' he quoted mockingly. They sat down in a small gap in
the gorse, where the turf was very soft, and where the darkness seemed ..."
3. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"This house, being so large and sumptuously built by a man of no greater calling,
possessions, or wealth, for he was indebted to many, was mockingly called ..."
4. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1893)
"For those who ask it mockingly I have no answer, except to repeat to them, with
compassionate sorrow, the Gospel words: ..."
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