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mockeries

mockeries is the plural of mockery.

Meaning of mockery

Noun

mockery (countable and uncountable, plural mockeries)

  1. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
  2. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
  3. (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
  4. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
    • The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

Questions about mockeries

What is mockeries the plural of?
Mockeries is the plural of mockery.

Words near mockeries in the dictionary

  1. mocked out
  2. mocked up
  3. mocker
  4. mockered
  5. mockered up
  6. mockeries
  7. mockernut
  8. mockernuts
  9. mockers
  10. mockery
  11. mockest

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