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Meaning of "self-mockingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-MOCKINGLY

self-mockingly  [ˌselfˈmɒkɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-MOCKINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Mockingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES SELF-MOCKINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-mockingly in the English dictionary

The definition of self-mockingly in the dictionary is in a self-mocking manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELF-MOCKINGLY


achingly
ˈeɪkɪŋlɪ
breathtakingly
ˈbrɛθteɪkɪŋlɪ
creakingly
ˈkriːkɪŋlɪ
half-jokingly
ˌhɑːfˈdʒəʊkɪŋlɪ
heartbreakingly
ˈhɑːtˌbreɪkɪŋlɪ
jokingly
ˈdʒəʊkɪŋlɪ
kingly
ˈkɪŋlɪ
mockingly
ˈmɒkɪŋlɪ
painstakingly
ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋlɪ
provokingly
prəˈvəʊkɪŋlɪ
quakingly
ˈkweɪkɪŋlɪ
rockingly
ˈrɒkɪŋlɪ
shockingly
ˈʃɒkɪŋlɪ
shrinkingly
ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋlɪ
smirkingly
ˈsmɜːkɪŋlɪ
squeakingly
ˈskwiːkɪŋlɪ
strikingly
ˈstraɪkɪŋlɪ
takingly
ˈteɪkɪŋlɪ
unblinkingly
ˌʌnˈblɪŋkɪŋlɪ
unthinkingly
ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-MOCKINGLY

self-loathing
self-locking
self-love
self-lubricating
self-lubrication
self-made
self-maintenance
self-mastery
self-mockery
self-mocking
self-motivated
self-murder
self-mutilation
self-neglect
self-obsessed
self-obsession
self-opinionated
self-opinioned
self-ordained
self-parody

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-MOCKINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
sickeningly
singly
sparingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
unknowingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of self-mockingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-mockingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-MOCKINGLY

Find out the translation of self-mockingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-mockingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-mockingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我调侃
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

auto- burla
570 millions of speakers

English

self-mockingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वयं हँसी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الذاتي ساخرا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

само- насмешливо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto- ironicamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-বিদ্রূপাত্মক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

auto- moqueur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengejek diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

selbstironisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己ふざけて
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 조롱
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Poto-mockingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự chế giễu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய ஏளனமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: mockingly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kendi kendine alay ederek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto- beffardamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szyderczo siebie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

само- глузливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- batjocoritor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - χλευαστικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- spottend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

själv mockingly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selv hånlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-mockingly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-MOCKINGLY»

The term «self-mockingly» is used very little and occupies the 178.364 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-MOCKINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «self-mockingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «self-mockingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-mockingly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-MOCKINGLY»

Discover the use of self-mockingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-mockingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study
The poet's 'phonetic fantasy denies a huge wedge between word and thing'.33 In the opinion of Michael Parker, Heaney self mockingly compares his predicament and his ineffectuality with that of Hamlet, an act of ironic identification.
Narendra Kumar, 2009
2
The Social Self: Hawthorne, Howells, William James, and ...
(139). The flaw in Chillingworth's thinking here is not new. When during his visit with Hester in the jail he self-mockingly recalls the fantasies of domesticity that led to their marriage, he exposes an inability to perceive the difference between his ...
Joseph Alkana
3
Self, Sign, and Symbol
Its symbolism, its rhetorical art generally, tends to be both excessively naive, like the dream, and self-mockingly sophisticated, like the joke. I have been relating major instances of literary symbolism to the dream understood according to ...
Mark Neuman, Michael Payne, 1987
4
Arabic, Self and Identity: A Study in Conflict and Displacement
... of the fuṣḥā; on the contrary, one feels a sense of pleasure in a man who has discovered what to him could have been an almost lost heritage but who now lovingly, caringly and self-mockingly is trying to reclaim it as his through the fuṣḥā.
Yasir Suleiman, 2011
5
Beyond the Frustrated Self: Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and ...
... but also with the moment-by-moment decisions. She wants to teach, she wants to go horseriding, she wants to climb mountains, she wants to read, she wants to bake, she wants to paint: “I want, I want, I want, I want”, she cries self-mockingly.
Barbara Dowds, 2014
6
Spirit, Soul, and City: Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'
While his offer wins the First and Second Citizen's votes, Coriolanus mockingly or self, mockingly describes their votes as “two worthy voices begged” and as “alms” (2380—81) and then brusquely dismisses the men (“adieu!” [2.3.811).
Jan Blits, 2006
7
Incest Fantasies and Self-destructive Acts: Jungian and ...
... banned to outer space. His place was taken by Funny Man, who juggled and did clown-like falls to entertain people (manic defense). This was a side of Peter that his mother knew well, his tendency to take center stage, bow self-mockingly ...
Mara Sidoli, Gustav Bovensiepen
8
A Critical History of German Film
champagne and crème de cassis, and focusing rather self-mockingly around the lives of the rich and famous in Munich. Dietl's comedy hit Schtonk, about the notorious 1983 forging of Hitler diaries, had successfully propelled him from ...
Stephen Brockmann, 2010
9
The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American ...
Realitv is not a function of an event, Jack argued, but of the "relationship of the event to past, and future, events" (384). "The truth," Jack said self-mockingly, " shall make you free" (26o). Yet the truth of the past never set Jack free. It only entailed ...
Paul V. Murphy, 2001
10
The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins ...
... "lo sto rinchiuso," written years later in terza rima, which is a self-parody of the aged, grotesquely deformed artist himself; or, finally, in the poem written in response to one by Francesco Berni, in which Michelangelo, self-mockingly assuming ...
Paul Barolsky

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-MOCKINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-mockingly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Obama Orders Jon Stewart to Stay on ?Daily Show?
Obama added, apparently self-mockingly: “It's being challenged in the courts.” Sure, he's been called 'dude' and his policies timid, but mostly Obama's. «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
Revenge of the Fox News Frat Boy
he chirps self-mockingly at the appearance of a photo of a much younger Guilfoyle rocking a leopard-print jumpsuit years before her crime-fighting career as an ... «Daily Beast, May 15»
3
Koreans' changing perceptions on marriage
Koreans in their 20s and 30s, the sons and daughters of those who achieved rapid economic growth within a few decades, have self-mockingly branded ... «The Korea Herald, Mar 15»
4
I'm a Sucker for Movies About Cults, and Faults Is One of the Best …
... the matter, I've got to admit I'll probably go for the serious drama first, and then the documentary; if you're doing a comedy, I'll worry (mildly, self-mockingly, OK, ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»
5
Taylor Swift Explains Why She'll Still Be Single At 30
“She's just surrounded by cats,” she said self-mockingly. “So many cats, they've divided themselves up into armies and she wanders around lint-rolling the couch ... «MTV.com, Mar 15»
6
Eddie Izzard, Force Majeure review: Humanity, spoons and expert …
... free associations and suddenly invented characters and make it work, even when, as he notes self-mockingly, he needs to "remember never to do that bit ever ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
7
How to Be the Perfect Thanksgiving Guest
“Everyone self-consciously, self-mockingly but also weirdly proudly, talks about gluttony,” he said. “But the literal amounts of food consumed haven't struck me as ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
8
Noel Fielding, Eventim Apollo
“I'm 41,” he says self-mockingly several times in the evening as he finds himself performing as a plump chicken or a cowboy with unfeasibly bandy legs, as if he ... «The Arts Desk, Nov 14»
9
Jazz Voice, review: 'a recipe for bliss'
... Guy Barker, and the entertaining banter of host Jumoke Fashola, playing the straight woman to her fellow host's Ian Shaw's self-mockingly learned banter. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
10
Steve Forbert, singer/songwriter of 'Romeo's Tune' fame, to play City …
... lyric reflects Forbert's own experience after coming to New York City in the late 1970s with a guitar and a drive to become the “Big City Cat” he self-mockingly ... «New York Daily News, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Self-Mockingly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-mockingly>. Apr 2024 ».
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