Mockery

n.	1.	The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. - Shak. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. - Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. - Pope.
	2.	Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. - Spenser.
	3.	Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. - 2 Macc. viii. 17.

Noun	1.	mockery - showing your contempt by derision Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing
	2.	mockery - a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way Synonyms: charade, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, burlesque, travesty, takeoff
	3.	mockery - humorous or satirical mimicry Synonyms: parody, takeoff

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, abuse, affront, aggressive mimicry, apery, aspersion, atrocity, bagatelle, 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, 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, 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, roasting, row of pins, rush, scoff, scoffing, scurrility, semblance, shit, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, snap, sneeshing, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sophistry, sou, spoof, sport, squib, stock, straw, synaposematic mimicry, take-off, takeoff, target, taunt, taunting, tongue in cheek, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twitting, two cents, twopence, uncandidness, uncandor, uncomplimentary remark, unfrankness, victim, whim-wham, wicked imitation

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