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noun

Mockery n. (pl. mockeries)

The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. "It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery." "Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God." "And bear about the mockery of woe."

Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. "The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries."

Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. "The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery."

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Etymology of 'Mockery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mockery" Quotes from Famous Books

... how she was arrayed, that she had coifed herself with the head-dress, and it suited her exceeding well." Kjartan answered, and coloured up, and it was easy to see he was angry with her for making a mockery of this. "Nothing of what you say, Hrefna, passed before my eyes, and there was no need for Gudrun to coif herself with the head-dress to look statelier than all other women." Thereat Hrefna dropped the talk. The men of Laugar bore this exceedingly ill, and thought ...

— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous

... alarm among our people throughout the State. All rights of freemen denied and all claims to a just recompense for labor rendered or honorable dealings between planter and laborer disallowed, justice a mockery, and the laws a cheat, the very officers of the courts being themselves the mobocrats and violators of the law, the only remedy left the colored citizens in many of parishes of our State today is to emigrate. The fiat to go forth is irresistible. The constantly recurring, nay, ever-present, ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... to old Krok too. Their common loss had in it the elements of mockery, and on my second visit Krok expressed a desire to return to Sercq. Torode could maintain himself by fishing, as they had done together, and could barter his surplus at Rozel or ...

— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham

... end of the room Thyme and Martin scarcely looked at her. To them she was Aunt B., an amateur, the mockery of whose eyes sometimes penetrated their youthful armour; they were besides too interested in their conversation to perceive that she was suffering. The skirmish of that conversation had lasted now for many days—ever since the death ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... except a mockery vain Of nature free as fair, That dazzles rather than delights The eye that meets its glare? Then bear me to the heathy hills Where I so loved to stray, There let me rove with footsteps free And sing ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

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