All 22 Uses of

mock

in

The Idiot

His clothes certainly were very different; they were more fashionable, perhaps even too much so, and anyone inclined to mockery might have found something to smile at in his appearance.†
Chpt 2.2

mockery = something that is ridiculous OR the teasing of someone in a disrespectful manner

His words seemed tinged with a kind of sarcastic mockery, yet he was extremely agitated, casting suspicious glances around him, growing confused, and constantly losing the thread of his ideas.†
Chpt 2.10

mockery = something that is ridiculous OR the teasing of someone in a disrespectful manner

I have grown convinced that nature is full of mockery—you called me an atheist just now, but you know this nature... why are you laughing again?†
Chpt 2.10

Evgenie Pavlovitch gazed at him in real surprise, and this time his expression of face had no mockery in it whatever.†
Chpt 3.1

Every high quality, every brilliant trait of heart and mind, are to be found in her, and, with it all, so much caprice and mockery, such wild fancies—indeed, a little devil!†
Chpt 3.3

Although you don't know his name you make a mockery of his form, following the example of Voltaire.†
Chpt 3.4

Why make all these excuses?" interrupted Aglaya in a mocking tone of voice.†
Chpt 1.5

But it must be gone through She is restless, mocking, deceitful, violent....†
Chpt 2.2

But Evgenie Pavlovitch (as the prince was ready to wager) both comprehended and tried his best to show that he comprehended; his smile was too mocking to leave any doubt on that point.†
Chpt 2.7

"You are shockingly naive, prince," said Lebedeff's nephew in mocking tones.†
Chpt 2.8

"How dare you grin at me like that?" she shouted furiously, rushing at the invalid, whose mocking smile drove her to distraction.†
Chpt 2.9

Why"—he continued with sudden warmth—"does she create the choicest beings only to mock at them?†
Chpt 2.10

Do you know that a woman is capable of driving a man crazy almost, with her cruelties and mockeries, and feels not one single pang of regret, because she looks at him and says to herself, 'There!†
Chpt 3.3

As for myself, a man of the late nineteenth century, I, of course, should reason differently; I say so plainly, and therefore you need not jeer at me nor mock me, gentlemen.†
Chpt 3.4

"Oh no," continued the prince thoughtfully, not noticing Aglaya's mocking tone, "I was almost always silent there.†
Chpt 3.8

There was a sensation of bitterness, a sort of mocking contempt, mingled with it.†
Chpt 4.1

Definitions:

(1) (mock as in: don't mock me)
make fun of (ridicule--sometimes by imitating in an exaggerated manner)

or (more rarely): just to make fun or to be ridiculous without targeting anyone as a victim

These senses of mockery come together when a comedian pokes fun at a politician by pretending to be the politician and saying ridiculous things.
(2) (mock as in: a mock trial)
not real
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, mock can refer to a way of preparing food. Mockers can be an abbreviation for mockingbirds.