mockery
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But the videos themselves became a subject of further mockery online.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Now, after much mockery and controversy, minimalist footwear is hotter than ever.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
Then again, you could argue the Dodgers already are making a mockery of the NL West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
As many of them see it, a failure by the parliamentary commissioner for standards to come down hard on Farage would make a mockery of plenty of other MPs' diligence.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
She was taken aback by the biting mockery in his voice.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Mena believes the Black Paintings to be mockeries in the same spirit – cartoons he drew around himself as if the walls were “big sheets of paper”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2019
But his daughter Meghan McCain, who has become a kind of spokeswoman for the family, recently called Trump's repeated, onstage mockeries of her father “gross.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2018
Boston Dynamics’ creatures are like cruel, surreal techno-parodies of organic life, absurdist mockeries of living things.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2013
Which proves my point about who, exactly, makes mockeries of these things.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2010
There, sir, take your papers, and henceforth let there be no more mockeries of office.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James
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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