half-mockingly

The low gravity and artificial light of the station meant that the people who lived here, half-mockingly called Sardines, grew long, lithe and pale.

365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

The guide salaamed, half-mockingly, half-wondering at such eloquence, pausing in the passage to point into the side-caves that debouched to either hand.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

"Have you been using this?" he asked half-mockingly in the tone of a teacher.

Excerpt: The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton 2007

For the sake of brevity I'll skip over the false engine motif, glance only half-mockingly at the 'not deciding themselves', and get right to the desire-assuring claim.

Outside-the-Beltway Mentality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

As the author of Famous Vegetarians and Their Recipes, he tells of facing "at every bookstore signing, at every lecture, on every phone-in talk show, at least one person (who) has asked ... half-mockingly: 'Is Hitler in your book?'"

Adolf loved his liver dumplings 2007

"I want everyone to love me," he said, half-mockingly, after explaining that he was once shocked to learn that the racial stereotypes and violence toward women he portrayed in his work were hurtful to many people.

Boing Boing: April 17, 2005 - April 23, 2005 Archives 2005

“I want everyone to love me,” he said, half-mockingly, after explaining that he was once shocked to learn that the racial stereotypes and violence toward women he portrayed in his work were hurtful to many people.

R. Crumb Has a Memoir « Gerry Canavan 2005

It was tie false position (which I was well able to realise) that torwtented me; to know that one was regarded as a child and yet be forced to take part in an essentially grown-up function, to rfed that all the adults present were being half-mockingly kind mtd pretending to treat you as what you were not.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

"For how long?" she said, half-mockingly, and touched her horse before he could reply.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

"In this case, Madam, it is but natural your sight should be better than my own," half-mockingly returned the maid.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham