Mockery

Noun

 * 1) The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
 * 2) Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
 * 3)  Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
 * 4) Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
 * The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:ridicule

Adjectives for Mockery
hollow; unreal;  solemn;  unsubstantial empty; cynical; standing; ghastly; forced; impotent; hideous; sardonic; bland.

Verbs for Mockery
bear—; endure—; expose to—; ignore—; persecute with—; provoke—; regret—; roast in—; —agonizes; —discomposes; —disconcerts; —disheartens; —humiliates; "—mortifies; —rankles; —ruffles; —saddens; -— wearies; —weighs upon; —wounds.

Thesaurus
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, abuse, affront, aggressive mimicry, apery, aspersion, atrocity, bagatelle, banter, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, booing, brass farthing, brickbat, burlesque, butt, button, byword, byword of reproach, caricature, casuistry, catcalling, cent, chaffing, contempt, contumely, crossed fingers, cryptic mimicry, curio, cut, decrial, derision, despite, disappointment, disdain, disingenuousness, disparagement, dump, dupe, emptiness, enormity, fair game, farce, farthing, feather, fig, figure of fun, fleabite, fleering, flippancy, flout, flouting, folderol, fool, fooling, fribble, frippery, game, gaud, gazingstock, gewgaw, gibe, gimcrack, goat, grinning, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hissing, hollow mockery, hollowness, hooting, humiliation, imitation, impersonation, indignity, injury, insincerity, insult, jeer, jeering, jest, jester, jestingstock, jesuitry, joke, joshing, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, lampoon, laugh, laughingstock, leering, levity, mimicry, minikin, miscarriage, mock, molehill, monkey, offense, outrage, panning, parody, parrotry, pasquinade, pastiche, peppercorn, picayune, pilgarlic, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, playing possum, protective coloration, put-down, ragging, raillery, rallying, rap, razzing, red cent, ridicule, roasting, row of pins, rush, satire, scoff, scoffing, scorn, scurrility, semblance, sham, shit, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, snap, sneering, sneeshing, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sophistry, sou, spoof, sport, squib, stock, straw, synaposematic mimicry, take-off, takeoff, target, taunt, taunting, tongue in cheek, toy, travesty, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twitting, two cents, twopence, uncandidness, uncandor, uncomplimentary remark, unfrankness, victim, whim-wham, wicked imitation

Etymology
Fropm mokerie:, mokery:, and  mocquerie:, moquerie:, from moquer:, moker: + -erie:, perhaps from Greek μωκός - mokos, "mocker".

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