Meaning of MOCKERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mâkuree
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- [n] humorous or satirical mimicry
- [n] showing your contempt by derision
- [n] a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
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| | Synonyms: | | burlesque, charade, jeer, jeering, lampoon, parody, parody, pasquinade, put-on, scoff, scoffing, sendup, spoof, takeoff, takeoff, travesty |
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| | See Also: | | apery, caricature, derision, imitation, impersonation, mimicry | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mock"er*y\, n.; pl. {Mockeries}. [F. moquerie.]
1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by
mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of
earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows
malicious mockery. --Shak.
Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to
look more like a mockery upon devotion than any
solemn application of the mind to God. --Law.
And bear about the mockery of woe. --Pope.
2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous
merriment; derision; ridicule.
The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. --Spenser.
3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a
mockery. --2 Macc.
viii. 17.
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| | Related Terms: | | a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, abuse, affront, aggressive mimicry, apery, aspersion, atrocity, bagatelle, banter, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, booing, brass farthing, brickbat, burlesque, butt, button, byword, byword of reproach, caricature, casuistry, catcalling, cent, chaffing, contempt, contumely, crossed fingers, cryptic mimicry, curio, cut, decrial, derision, despite, disappointment, disdain, disingenuousness, disparagement, dump, dupe, emptiness, enormity, fair game, farce, farthing, feather, fig, figure of fun, fleabite, fleering, flippancy, flout, flouting, folderol, fool, fooling, fribble, frippery, game, gaud, gazingstock, gewgaw, gibe, gimcrack, goat, grinning, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hissing, hollow mockery, hollowness, hooting, humiliation, imitation, impersonation, indignity, injury, insincerity, insult, jeer, jeering, jest, jester, jestingstock, jesuitry, joke, joshing, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, lampoon, laugh, laughingstock, leering, levity, mimicry, minikin, miscarriage, mock, molehill, monkey, offense, outrage, panning, parody, parrotry, pasquinade, pastiche, peppercorn, picayune, pilgarlic, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, playing possum, protective coloration, put-down, ragging, raillery, rallying, rap, razzing, red cent, ridicule, roasting, row of pins, rush, satire, scoff, scoffing, scorn, scurrility, semblance, sham, shit, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, snap, sneering, sneeshing, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sophistry, sou, spoof, sport, squib, stock, straw, synaposematic mimicry, takeoff, take-off, target, taunt, taunting, tongue in cheek, toy, travesty, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twitting, two cents, twopence, uncandidness, uncandor, uncomplimentary remark, unfrankness, victim, whim-wham, wicked imitation |
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