Definition of Mockery

1. Noun. Showing your contempt by derision.

Exact synonyms: Jeer, Jeering, Scoff, Scoffing
Generic synonyms: Derision
Derivative terms: Jeer, Jeer, Mock, Scoff, Scoff, Scoff, Scoff

2. Noun. A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way.

3. Noun. Humorous or satirical mimicry.
Exact synonyms: Parody, Takeoff
Generic synonyms: Apery, Mimicry
Derivative terms: Parodist, Parody, Take Off

Definition of Mockery

1. n. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.

Definition of Mockery

1. Noun. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision. ¹

2. Noun. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc. ¹

4. Noun. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mockery

1. the act of mocking [n -ERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mockery

mockado
mockadoes
mockage
mockages
mockamole
mockbird
mockbirds
mockbuster
mockbusters
mocked
mocker
mockeries
mockernut
mockernut hickory
mockers
mockery (current term)
mocking
mocking bird
mocking birds
mocking is catching
mocking thrush
mockingbird
mockingbirds
mockingly
mockings
mockingstock
mockish
mockney
mockneys
mocks

Literary usage of Mockery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"... a King and Queen whose children would trace mockery to ... spirit which prompted this mockery soon showed The early itself in a more dangerous shape. ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... watch, and banish sleep, Lest we should fall, a mockery to our foes." He spoke, and cross'd the trench, and with him went Who of the Argive chieftains ..."

3. The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets by Vida Dutton Scudder (1895)
"From this play of conflicting shadows, from this kaleidoscopic world where the saint is the whore and the hero mockery of is the dastard and the seer is the ..."

4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... would have ventured, even in mockery, to blazon forth a seditious claim of this sort unless it were the regular formula employed on such occasions, ..."

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