How to Use mockery in a Sentence
mockery
noun
- His kind of personality invites mockery.
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The right regards the Hunter plea deal as a mockery of the law.
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Daniel Henninger,
WSJ,
2 Aug. 2023
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But the mockery, the loss of status and the shame remained.
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Flora Cassen,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2023
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Much of the mockery came from the sports jocks and guys bigger than me.
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Annie Lane,
oregonlive,
3 Dec. 2022
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The self-mockery strikes a tone of gothic camp which relieves the gloom.
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Garth Greenwell,
The New Yorker,
6 June 2022
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The Leafs’ top line made a mockery of the Wings in the first half of the second period.
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Helene St. James,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Feb. 2022
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The video and the fact that the vessel relied on the controller led to widespread mockery online.
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Brady Knox,
Washington Examiner,
20 June 2023
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The first debate was full of mockery, name-calling and taunts.
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NBC News,
1 Oct. 2020
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Chuck Schumer has made a mockery of Robert Byrd’s reform.
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Daniel Henninger,
WSJ,
29 Sep. 2021
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For his part, Trump may make a mockery of the debate itself.
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Jonathan Weisman,
BostonGlobe.com,
24 July 2023
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For his part, Mr. Trump may make a mockery of the debate itself.
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Jonathan Weisman,
New York Times,
24 July 2023
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And makes a mockery of the whole reason gymnastics went to the open-ended Code of Points in the first place.
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Nancy Armour,
USA TODAY,
21 May 2021
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Still, the launch met with a fair amount of mockery for making the wearer look, well, silly.
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Cassie Werber,
Quartz,
8 June 2023
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Will Fields make a mockery of the pundits who have knocked his Ohio State learning curve?
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Jarrett Bell,
USA TODAY,
28 Apr. 2021
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And more sneering mockery of an old man hooked up to an oxygen tank.
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Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2020
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For such dishonesty doesn’t just make a mockery of truth, but of us.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
6 Sep. 2022
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His every move is a mockery of the idea of transparency.
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Katherine Cross,
WIRED,
12 Dec. 2022
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The steely-eyed Northern Irishman was making a mockery of the firm and fast greens that had humbled so much of the field across the week.
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Jack Bantock,
CNN,
17 June 2024
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Broder develops Rachel's voice well beyond the arch mockery of the smarter-than-thou.
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Melissa Broder,
Star Tribune,
5 Feb. 2021
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The video has garnered more than 4.6 million views and plenty of mockery in the comments.
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USA TODAY,
21 July 2023
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The attention to Swift at NFL games has drawn some pushback and mockery.
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Eric Berger,
Washington Post,
23 Jan. 2024
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But Teigen was ready with a little bit of very gentle mockery.
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Emily Dixon,
Marie Claire,
6 Nov. 2020
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There are oodles of self-mockery here, yet never quite enough, and the plot is a rum affair.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2020
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The bank has faced criticism and mockery on social media for its role in the deal.
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Julia Horowitz,
CNN,
21 Apr. 2021
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That’s a mockery of an election and a democratic process.
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Stéphanie Fillion,
Forbes,
7 May 2021
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The morning after the frosty date, Julia becomes the subject of cruel mockery across the city.
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Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 June 2022
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Call it a hunch, call it the truth, or better yet, call it mockery of those who were oh-so-impatient.
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Chad Finn,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 Nov. 2022
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Russia has been making a mockery of the very foundation of the Olympics for more than a decade now, and Bach might as well be the lookout at the door of the lab.
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Nancy Armour,
USA TODAY,
18 Dec. 2020
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Another claimed that the performance was a mockery of Chappell herself.
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James Factora,
Them,
19 Sep. 2024
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As fiction, this is mordant comedy—a mockery of the particular type of arrogance required to twist the tragedies of the Holocaust into personal gain.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2024
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