mockery
Example Sentences
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Then one team wants to make a mockery of the final, Ganesha, by using backups.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
"It's a mockery for Honduras. This country doesn't deserve that," one resident told local TV at the time.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
It isn’t the only paternal prediction that Bernstein’s life would make a mockery of, at least in his telling of it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Then he dismissed her with a Truth Social post where he used the praise once again, making it feel, especially if one were to read it aloud in his voice, like mockery.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
I couldn’t endure the mockery, or the disgrace, or the patriotic ridicule.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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