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Said, written, or done with the intent to mock, or ridicule; with mocking effect. quotations examples
I remember how mockingly bright the day seemed as I went back on my melancholy pilgrimage to the little house at Woking, how busy the streets and vivid the moving life about me.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 291