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
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Examples of mockery in a Sentence
His kind of personality invites mockery.
the children's cruel mockery of each other
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Rich Lowry, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The adventures of this talented cross-dresser make a mockery of binary ideas about gender.
—Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
But just about everyone else sees the Walmart design as a mockery of elitism.
—Aarushi Bhandari, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
But Mangold cautions any filmmaker from taking the cynicism (or even good-natured mockery) of a satire too deeply to heart.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Mockery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mockery. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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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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