persifler
Meanings
Verb
1. to mock someone by way of feigned politeness and kindness with ironic, veiled insults, or by apparently light-hearted teasing with a harsher double meaning, intended to be understood by onlookers but not the person mocked
2. to mock someone generally; to say in mockery
Examples1
Il a cruellement persiflé cet homme.
He cruelly mocked that man.