mockingly
advEtymology From mocking + -ly.
1
Said, written, or done with the intent to mock, or ridicule; with mocking effect.
- 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:
- It then mockingly says they connect “like-minded Tesla owners with one another, facilitating a vibrant community through shared contact information.”2025 March 18, Michael Gauthier, “Tesla Owners’ Personal Info Leaked On DOGEQuest Site, Musk Calls It Domestic Terrorism”, in Carscoops:
- Derived terms
- self-mockingly