Mock vs. Scorn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mock and Scorn
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Mock
Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner
Opposition MPs mocked the government's decision
Scorn
A feeling and expression of contempt or disdain for someone or something
I do not wish to become the object of scorn
Mock
Make a replica or imitation of something.
Scorn
Feel or express contempt or disdain for
The minister scorned Labour's attempt to woo voters
Mock
Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive
Jim threw up his hands in mock horror
A mock-Georgian red brick house
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Scorn
Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy
Viewed his rivals with scorn.
Mock
Mock examinations
Obtaining Grade A in mocks
Scorn
The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision
Heaped scorn upon his rivals.
Mock
An object of derision
He has become the mock of all his contemporaries
Scorn
The state of being despised or dishonored
Held in scorn by his rivals.
Mock
To treat with ridicule or contempt; deride
Was mocked for contradicting himself.
Mocked her superficial understanding of the issues.
Scorn
(Archaic) One spoken of or treated with contempt.
Mock
To imitate in fun or derision
Mocked his high-pitched voice.
Scorn
To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy
An artist who was scorned by conservative critics.
Mock
To mimic or resemble closely
A whistle that mocks the call of seabirds.
Scorn
To reject or refuse with derision
Scorned their offer of help.
Mock
To frustrate the hopes or intentions of
"The massive blister mocked my efforts" (Willie Morris).
Scorn
To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity
"She disapproved so heartily of Flora's plan that she would have scorned to assist in the concoction of a single oily sentence" (Stella Gibbons).
Mock
To cause to appear irrelevant, ineffectual, or impossible
"The Depression mocked the Puritan assumption that failure in life was the wages of sin when even the hardest-working, most pious husbands began to lose hope" (Walter McDougall).
Scorn
(transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
Mock
To express scorn or ridicule; jeer
They mocked at the idea.
Scorn
(transitive) To reject, turn down.
He scorned her romantic advances.
Mock
The act of mocking.
Scorn
(transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
She scorned to show weakness.
Mock
An object of scorn or derision
Became the mock of his associates.
Scorn
(intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
Mock
Simulated; false; sham
A mock battle.
Scorn
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
Mock
In an insincere or pretending manner
Mock sorrowful.
Scorn
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
Mock
An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
Scorn
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
Mock
; the act of mocking.
Scorn
Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Scorn at first makes after love the more.
And wandered backward as in scorn,To wait an æon to be born.
Mock
A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.
Scorn
An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Every sullen frown and bitter scornBut fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
Mock
(software engineering) A mockup or prototype; particularly, mock object, as used in unit testing.
Scorn
An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Mock
To mimic, to simulate.
Scorn
To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.
This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
Mock
(rare) To create an artistic representation of.
Scorn
To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
His fellow, that lay by his bed's side,Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously.
Mock
To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
Scorn
To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,And, now I am remembered, scorned at me.
Mock
To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
Scorn
Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
He was held in contempt
The despite in which outsiders were held is legendary
Mock
To create a mockup or prototype of.
Scorn
Open disrespect for a person or thing
Mock
Imitation, not genuine; fake.
Mock leather
Mock trial
Mock turtle-soup
Scorn
Look down on with disdain;
He despises the people he has to work for
The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately
Mock
To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
To see the life as lively mocked as everStill sleep mocked death.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
Scorn
Reject with contempt;
She spurned his advances
Mock
To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
Mock
To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.
He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
Mock
To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
She had mocked at his proposal.
Mock
An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Fools make a mock at sin.
Mock
Imitation; mimicry.
Mock
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
That superior greatness and mock majesty.
Mock
The act of mocking or ridiculing;
They made a mock of him
Mock
Treat with contempt;
The new constitution mocks all democratic principles
Mock
Imitate with mockery and derision;
The children mocked their handicapped classmate
Mock
Constituting a copy or imitation of something;
Boys in mock battle
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