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Mena believes the Black Paintings to be mockeries in the same spirit – cartoons he drew around himself as if the walls were “big sheets of paper”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2019

But his daughter Meghan McCain, who has become a kind of spokeswoman for the family, recently called Trump's repeated, onstage mockeries of her father “gross.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2018

Boston Dynamics’ creatures are like cruel, surreal techno-parodies of organic life, absurdist mockeries of living things.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2013

Which proves my point about who, exactly, makes mockeries of these things.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2010

IT is one of the mockeries of matrimony that the moment two people begin to be awfully courteous to one another round the house it is a sign they are awfully mad.

From Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Rowland, Helen