mockery
Example Sentences
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Mockery has often been a useful tool among the many needed to deflate the posture of omnipotence that actual and aspiring autocrats like to adopt.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024
"Mockery is a legitimate form of expression that should not be considered a crime."
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2022
There was so much Bryan Goldberg content on Gawker that the editors rounded it up in a greatest-hits post under the headline “The Relentless and Well-Deserved Mockery of Bryan Goldberg.”
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2021
Mockery of the “current year” argument — especially as regularly employed by comedian John Oliver — has become a meme in some far-right circles.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2016
Mockery and disregardf This was not the Pyke he remembered.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing mockery
"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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