I've tried to keep the tone one of irony, of gentle mockery.

He heard a touch of gentle mockery in her voice.

Sir Guy smiled in gentle mockery, then sobered.

He seemed to dismiss his more vociferous critics with gentle mockery.

There was a gentle mockery in her smile.

He thought of Brother Jeris' gentler mockery of earlier years.

Ged said with the same gentle mockery, and then saying, "Watch the air between my hands," he turned away from the others and stood still.

'All things are possible,' she said with gentle mockery, and looked towards the cottage.

The smile turned down with a little gentle mockery in its lines.

Most women have had to endure the gentle mockery of men for hiding behind a cushion/handbag/the man himself during a horror movie.