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• The burglars made a mockery of the museum's security system.From the entry make a mockery of
• Listen, the point was not whether the mockery of the first AirPods was deserved or not.2024 April 30, @bryancsk, Twitter. From the entry doublethinked
• This is also a TransPennine Express service which makes a mockery of the word 'express'.2023 November 1, Philip Haigh, “TPE must choose the right route to a brighter future”, in RAIL, number 995, page 56. From the entry express
• Parody, in its purest form, is an act of both mockery and appreciation.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry skewer
• There is a difference between entertaining mockery and low-class gutterdog wallowing.2001 April 12, Michael Brown, “Can you defer feats until you're a higher level?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet). From the entry gutterdog
• To "bust on" someone is "to deflate their pretensions by means of aggressive verbal mockery." Mr.1989 April 9, “Campus Life: Rutgers Anthropologist Examines Sex Life On the Raritan”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2018. From the entry bust on
• Mockery and fun, bawdish humor and pranks are the order of the day.1985, Prue Leith, Polly Tyrer, Entertaining With Style, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 83. From the entry bawdish
• Need another one?” Delila looked up from her glass and made her voice overly coarse in a mockery of Zeke’s.2023 June 17, Micky Carre, chapter 1, in Like Tears in Rain (Aurora Chronicles; 2), ASIN B0C4HYYT6P. From the entry hydro
• There is no weapon so effective as mockery and Gillray's vicious caricatures did more to demythologise Napoleon than anything else.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 273. From the entry demythologise
• England certainly made a mockery of the claim that they might somehow be intimidated by the Glasgow din.2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian. From the entry din
• The witching hour is three a.m., in mockery of the Trinity and a perversion of the hour of his death.2009 September 22, Rick Yancey, “The Devil’s Manger”, in The Monstrumologist, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster BFYR, →ISBN, page 349. From the entry witching hour
• P.N.G.’s Minister for Inter-Government Relations, Sir Peter Barter, described the coronation as a “mockery of Bougainvillean traditions and customs.”2004 December 14, Rory Callinan, “Jungle Fever”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025. From the entry Bougainvillean
• Why would any Hollywood studio encourage a film's transformation into camp, in effect joining in the mockery of its own product?1996 March 31, Trip Gabriel, “Showgirls' Crawls Back As High Camp at Midnight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry camp
• Who is responsible for this mockery of democracy?1995, Garrett Hardin, “Conspicuous Benevolence”, in Immigration and the American Identity: Selections From Chronicles, a Magazine of…. From the entry wordmaster
• The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry vindictive
• There were shouts of derision and mockery—a great overtone of acrid derision—the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared.1918–1921 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “XX Settembre”, in Aaron’s Rod, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published April…. From the entry ignominiously
• England played with style and superiority, showing the levels Tuchel insisted they would, making a mockery of the threat most observers thought Serbia would provide.2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “Serbia 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport. From the entry make a mockery of
• The essay's tone – knowing, insiderish, never polemical, and constantly shifting between mockery and studied neutrality – probably accounts for some of its warm reception.2013 January 27, Andy Beckett, “A user's guide to art-speak”, in The Guardian, retrieved 07 Dec 2020. From the entry insiderish
• Like "Garfield," "Catwoman" is really a parody of catitude, offering glib mockery of a domestic species notorious for its pride and hauteur.2004 July 22, A. O. Scott, “FILM REVIEW; Not-So-Cuddly Cat: This One Cracks a Mean Whip”, in The New York Times. From the entry catitude
• The second movement, the allegro ironico, is a variation on the well-known theme “Je m’en fous.” An ape-like mockery whinnies through it.1923, Paul Rosenfeld, Musical Chronicle (1917–1923), page 81. From the entry apess
• So this mockery inverts the colonizing mission of civilizing the childlike natives on its head and also 'desecrates the "purity" of cricket roots' asserted by the British.2013, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, page 156. From the entry gilli-danda
• If the highly visible mockery of teenagers leads to a serious examination of the practices and institutions that perpetuate racism, perhaps it will be worth it.2012 April 11, L. V. Anderson, “Talking to Teens Who Tweeted Racist Things About The Hunger Games”, in Slate, archived from the original…. From the entry drive-by
• Dank meme communities love making fun of fidget spinners, especially because spinners are associated with autistic kids, a favorite target for mockery in “edgy” online spaces like 4chan and Reddit.2017, Jay Hathaway (25 May 2017), Are fidget spinners white supremacist now?, Daily Dot (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original…. From the entry edgy
• After Gervinho had been brilliantly denied an early shot on goal by Mats Hummels' outstretched boot, the German champions made a mockery of their fourth-seeding in this season's group-stage draw.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC. From the entry outstretched

Meaning of mockery

1. noun The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
2. noun Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
3. noun Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.

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Questions about mockery in a sentence

How do you use mockery in a sentence?

Mockery is used as a noun. For example: “The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.”

What is a short sentence with mockery?

“Who is responsible for this mockery of democracy?”

What does mockery mean?

Mockery means the action of mocking; ridicule, derision.