mockery
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Some of those videos were subsequently shared on social media and led to cases of mockery or hateful messages, leading to the Paris public prosecutor opening an investigation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
As Charen notes, the tactic makes it hard to defend decency, because we “risk mockery by insisting that no, not everybody does it.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The tabloid mockery was largely dismissive of the couple's rare achievement in Hollywood.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Why not create a boogeyman and blame them for making a mockery of competitive balance?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He said bhaiyya ingratiatingly, cloyingly, making it a mockery of the word.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
Banksy often invokes everyday British life, with references to the Tesco supermarket chain and mockeries of Parliament and the royal family.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
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
Boston Dynamics’ creatures are like cruel, surreal techno-parodies of organic life, absurdist mockeries of living things.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2013
A deep, soft melancholy thrilled through its gay mockeries; the eyes of nature glimmered through the painted mask, and a nobler ambition was felt beneath the follies of petty success and petty vengeance.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
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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