About The Word Mockery
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Mockery
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What's The Definition Of Mockery?
[n] humorous or satirical mimicry
[n] showing your contempt by derision [n] a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way Synonyms | Synonyms for Mockery: burlesque | charade | jeer | jeering | lampoon | parody | parody | pasquinade | put-on | scoff | scoffing | sendup | spoof | takeoff | takeoff | travesty Related Terms | Find terms related to Mockery: a continental | a curse | a damn | a darn | a hoot | absurdity | abuse | affront | aggressive mimicry | apery | aspersion | atrocity | bagatelle | banter | bauble | bean | bibelot | bit | booing | brass farthing | brickbat | burlesque | butt | button | byword | byword of reproach | caricature | casuistry | catcalling | cent | chaffing | contempt | contumely | crossed fingers | cryptic mimicry | curio | cut | decrial | derision | despite | disappointment | disdain | disingenuousness | disparagement | dump | dupe | emptiness | enormity | fair game | farce | farthing | feather | fig | figure of fun | fleabite | fleering | flippancy | flout | flouting | folderol | fool | fooling | fribble | frippery | game | gaud | gazingstock | gewgaw | gibe | gimcrack | goat | grinning | hair | halfpenny | hill of beans | hissing | hollow mockery | hollowness | hooting | humiliation | imitation | impersonation | indignity | injury | insincerity | insult | jeer | jeering | jest | jester | jestingstock | jesuitry | joke | joshing | kickshaw | knickknack | knickknackery | lampoon | laugh | laughingstock | leering | levity | mimicry | minikin | miscarriage | mock | molehill | monkey | offense | outrage | panning | parody | parrotry | pasquinade | pastiche | peppercorn | picayune | pilgarlic | pin | pinch of snuff | pinprick | playing possum | protective coloration | put-down | ragging | raillery | rallying | rap | razzing | red cent | ridicule | roasting | row of pins | rush | satire | scoff | scoffing | scorn | scurrility | semblance | sham | shit | smart-aleckiness | smartness | smirking | snap | sneering | sneeshing | snickering | sniggering | snorting | sophistry | sou | spoof | sport | squib | stock | straw | synaposematic mimicry | takeoff | take-off | target | taunt | taunting | tongue in cheek | toy | travesty | trifle | trinket | triviality | tuppence | twitting | two cents | twopence | uncandidness | uncandor | uncomplimentary remark | unfrankness | victim | whim-wham | wicked imitation See Also | apery | caricature | derision | imitation | impersonation | mimicry Mockery In Webster's Dictionary \Mock"er*y\, n.; pl. {Mockeries}. [F. moquerie.]
1. 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. --Shak.
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. --Law.
And bear about the mockery of woe. --Pope.
2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous
merriment; derision; ridicule.
The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. --Spenser.
3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a
mockery. --2 Macc.
viii. 17.
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