Mock
Mock verb - To copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Frequently calling known celebs on stage to join them and proceeding to mock or try to sleep with them.
Source: Music / Steel Panther -
Evil Phone: Spike and others who declined the phone line's offerings of power, get evil calls that mock and try to kill them.
Source: Film / 976-EVIL - Even your allies won't hesitate to super-murder you if you so much as annoy them; the only person you can trust is Javelin (the real one, not the two doppelgangers who either mock or try to hurt Riana).
Source: Video Game / Riana Rouge
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