mockery
noun
ridicule, contempt, or derision.
mockeries
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pluralof mockery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Why have our finest actors been forced to make mockeries of themselves, looking like the Jolly Green Giant if he were holding a normal-sized microphone?
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
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
Biddy, who had long, for years back, ceased to torment or annoy me, came back with an arrear of bitterness to her mockeries and sneers.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
