ridiculingly

Updated: May 5, 2025

And on such occasions she would mimic him ridiculingly, to diminish his complaints, while Emmy roughly relighted the hubble-bubble and patted her father once more into a contented silence. Pa was to them, although they did not know it, their bond of union. Without him, they would have fallen apart, like the outer pieces of a wooden boot-tree.

Frank Swinnerton - Nocturne

Yet none can deny but that the food itself is a partial cause; for not only new fruit, bread, or corn, but flesh of the same year, is better tasted than that of the former, more forcibly provokes the guests, and enticeth them to eat on. And Alexander the Epicurean ridiculingly repeated, To feed on beans and parents' heads Is equal sin;

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies