verb
- to mock or ridicule; to treat with contempt or derision
Usage: archaic or literary; transitive verb
Examples
- The critics bemocked the actor's performance as overwrought and unconvincing.
- She refused to be bemocked by those who doubted her abilities.
- The crowd bemocked the politician's failed promises during the rally.
- He felt bemocked when his peers laughed at his unconventional ideas.
- The satirical play bemocked the pretensions of the wealthy elite.