mockery
IPA: mˈɑkɝi
noun
- The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
- Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
- (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
- Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
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Examples of "mockery" in Sentences
- It makes a mockery of the concept.
- That makes a mockery of the procedure.
- This is a direct mockery of one of the members.
- It makes a mockery of the whole ban in the first place.
- The article has done nothing but made a mockery of the person.
- He made a mockery of the serious and had a sardonic vulgar wit.
- It makes a mockery of the whole chronology of the Russian Civil War.
- The scientific community of the time responded with resistance and mockery.
- He is obviously trying to remind us of the mockery of sentimentality in war.
- It was inappropriate and mockery for Kabimba to superintend over those people.
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