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
She said Lecka's sentencing left her "utterly dumfounded" and "makes a whole mockery" of the UK justice system.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
O’Rourke, with gentle mockery or even wry affection.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
In that light, his tip wasn’t a kindness but a form of mockery: the billionaire Trump rubbing everyone’s noses in how vast the gulf is between them.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
Twenty years before Hrdlicka’s mockery, a flash flood tore a deep gully into a ranch in the northeast corner of New Mexico, near the hamlet of Folsom.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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