What does mockery mean?

Definitions for mockery
ˈmɒk ə rimock·e·ry

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word mockery.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffingnoun

    showing your contempt by derision

  2. parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-onnoun

    a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

  3. parody, mockery, takeoffnoun

    humorous or satirical mimicry

Wiktionary

  1. mockerynoun

    The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

  2. mockerynoun

    Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

  3. mockerynoun

    Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.

  4. mockerynoun

    Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

    The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

  5. Etymology: Fropm mokerie, mokery, and mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker + -erie, perhaps from Greek μωκός - mokos, "mocker".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mockerynoun

    Etymology: mocquerie, Latin.

    The forlorn maiden, whom your eyes have seen
    The laughing-stock of fortune’s mockeries,
    Am the only daughter of a king and queen. Fa. Qu.

    Why should publick mockery in print be a better test of truth than severe railing sarcasms. Isaac Watts.

    A new method they have of turning things that are serious into mockery; an art of contradiction by way of scorn, wherewith we were long sithence forewarned. Richard Hooker, b. v.

    What cannot be preserv’d when fortune takes,
    Patience her injury a mockery makes. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    Of the holy place they made a mockery. 2 Mac. viii. 17.

    It is as the air, invulnerable;
    And our vain blows malicious mockery. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion,
    Like rusty mail in monumental mockery. William Shakespeare.

    What though no friends in sable weeds appear,
    Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year,
    And bear about the mockery of woe
    To midnight dances. Alexander Pope, Miscel.

Wikipedia

  1. Mockery

    Mockery or mocking is the act of insulting or making light of a person or other thing, sometimes merely by taunting, but often by making a caricature, purporting to engage in imitation in a way that highlights unflattering characteristics. Mockery can be done in a lighthearted and gentle way, but can also be cruel and hateful, such that it "conjures images of corrosion, deliberate degradation, even subversion; thus, 'to laugh at in contempt, to make sport of' (OED)". Mockery appears to be unique to humans, and serves a number of psychological functions, such as reducing the perceived imbalance of power between authority figures and common people. Examples of mockery can be found in literature and the arts.

ChatGPT

  1. mockery

    Mockery is the act of making fun of, ridiculing or deriding someone or something in a contemptuous or scornful manner. It is often achieved through imitation, exaggeration, sarcasm or tongue in cheek humor. In other words, it is a means to belittle or dismiss the importance of something, or to expose the folly or absurdity of something, often with the intention of provoking laughter or scorn.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mockerynoun

    the act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance

  2. Mockerynoun

    insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule

  3. Mockerynoun

    subject of laughter, derision, or sport

  4. Etymology: [F. moquerie.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mockery in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mockery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of mockery in a Sentence

  1. Joseph Pulitzer:

    An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  2. Julie Hubbard:

    We are encouraged by this dialogue and understanding that being a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and laws not through DNA tests, we are encouraged by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren action and hope that the slurs and mockery of tribal citizens and Indian history and heritage will now come to an end.

  3. David Scott:

    The house is about celebrating life and to be reminded about how precious it is! Not to make a mockery.

  4. Raul Munoz:

    It's very difficult to see what the point of this was and much less that it could be effective, it's awful. It's shocking. It's a mockery.

  5. Jimmy De Frenne:

    Self-mockery is the best humor there is. Why am I doing this? Why not? There is nothing I like more than people making fun of me, because then I can do the same with them.

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