mockery
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Jamie Robins, programmes manager at Buglife, said the plan "makes a mockery" of Google's sustainability claims.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
At first, the relationship was mostly the source of mockery that someone of the his stature apparently needs a full-time ego masseuse who often totes around enormous bags, which have generated speculation about their contents.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
"It's incredible. They are making a mockery of the people of Tachira. We've been putting up with this for years," said Irma Villasmil, a 48-year-old assistant manager at a bank in San Cristobal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Why not create a boogeyman and blame them for making a mockery of competitive balance?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"If you don't want to go on," said the voice sarcastically, Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Why have our finest actors been forced to make mockeries of themselves, looking like the Jolly Green Giant if he were holding a normal-sized microphone?
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
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
Before him the shams and mockeries of existence shall sink away.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler
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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