mockery
pronunciation
How to pronounce mockery in British English:
UK [ˈmɒkəri]
How to pronounce mockery in American English:
US [ˈmɑkəri]
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- Noun:
- showing your contempt by derision
- a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
- humorous or satirical mimicry
Word Origin
- mockery (n.)
- early 15c., from Old French moquerie "sneering, mockery, sarcasm" (13c.), from moquer (see mock (v.)).
Example
- 1. The question is a mockery of a travesty of a sham .
- 2. You take a stupid gesture out of the realm of mockery and you give it illicit cachet .
- 3. So it 's worth pointing out that special treatment for fracking makes a mockery of free-market principles .
- 4. But although there 's mockery in that description , there 's also a clue as to how their story ended .
- 5. He is famous for his mockery of everything that moves-intellectuals , politicians , the masses , nationalism-all in savvy beijing slang .