mockery
/ˈmɑkəɹi/ noun C1- The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
- Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
- 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.
Plural mockeries
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I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words.
This door was a mockery to the concierge, from whose vigilance and jurisdiction it was free, and, like that famous portal in the Arabian Nights, opening at the “Sesame” of Ali Baba, it was wont to swing backward at a cabalistic word or a concerted tap from without from the sweetest voices or whitest fingers in the world.
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