mock

pilkka

ilkkua, matkia, pilkata

teko- An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

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Fools make a mock at sin.

He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.

Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.

Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.

And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion (..)

"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?

He will not (..) / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

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