mockery
noun
mock·ery
ˈmä-k(ə-)rē 
ˈmȯ-
plural mockeries
1
: insulting or contemptuous action or speech : derision
laying himself open to the jeers and mockeries of his rebellious subjects—
E. A. Freeman
E. A. Freeman2
: a subject of laughter, derision, or sport
making him turn himself into a merry mockery of all he had once held dear—O. St. John Gogarty
O. St. John Gogarty3
a
: a counterfeit appearance : imitation
if it was not a man it was a huge and grotesque mockery of man—E. R. Burroughs
E. R. Burroughs
b
: an insincere, contemptible, or impertinent (see impertinent sense 1a) imitation
makes a mockery of justice
4
: something ridiculously or impudently (see impudent sense 1) unsuitable
in her bitterness she felt that all rejoicing was mockery—George Eliot
George EliotSynonyms
Examples of mockery in a Sentence
His kind of personality invites mockery.
the children's cruel mockery of each other
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—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
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And so the two men, wielding their mockery, make a show of each chortle and smirk.
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
Nottingham Forest is making a mockery of many pundits’ pre-season predictions.
—Steve Price, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
And so the two men, wielding their mockery, make a show of each chortle and smirk.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
As New York becomes more cartoonishly difficult for human beings to live in, the existence of dogs feels like mockery.
—Christopher Robbins, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Mockery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mockery. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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mockery
noun
mock·ery
ˈmäk-(ə-)rē
ˈmȯk-
plural mockeries
1
: insulting action or speech
2
: someone or something that is laughed at
3
: a ridiculous or poor imitation
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