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Another word for mockery

Noun

  1. Words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter

    2. See also:

    respect

    laughter

  2. A false, derisive, or impudent imitation of something

    3. See also:

    same

    respect

  3. An object of amusement or laughter

    4. See also:

    respect

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Another word for mockery

Noun

  1. Derision

    2. See also:

    ridicule

  2. Mimicry

    3. See also:

    parody

  3. Something preposterous

    4. See also:

    joke

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Sentence Examples

  • It was, however, generally regarded as a mockery, and on the intercession of the British government the sentence was commuted to banishment.

  • Thereupon He was condemned to death for manifest blasphemy, and a scene of cruel mockery followed.

  • To Eusebius the erection of a temple of Venus over the sepulchre of Christ was an act of mockery against the Christian religion.

  • 553, "Mark that outcry of despair" for "Hark"; Hellas, 472, "Hold each to the other in loud mockery" for "Told."

  • The crowd greeted their arrival with mockery and derision, and being treated as the envoys of heretics they escaped without having obtained a hearing.

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