MOCKERY
parody, mockery, takeoff
(noun) humorous or satirical mimicry
jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing
(noun) showing your contempt by derision
parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, send-up, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade, put-on
(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mockery (countable and uncountable, plural mockeries)
The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
Usage notes
• We often use make a mockery of someone or something, meaning to mock them. See also Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Synonyms
• See also ridicule
Source: Wiktionary
Mock"er*y, n.; pl. Mockeries. Etym: [F. moquerie.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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