Definitions for mockery

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mockery mock·er·y

Spelling: [mok-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈmɒk ə ri/

Mockery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in mockery (cekmory).

Definitions for mockery

noun

1. ridicule, contempt, or derision.
2. a derisive, imitative action or speech.
3. a subject or occasion of derision.
4. an imitation, especially of a ridiculous or unsatisfactory kind.
5. a mocking pretense; travesty:
6. something absurdly or offensively inadequate or unfitting.

Origin of mockery

1400-50; late Middle English moquerie Middle French. See mock, -ery

Examples for mockery

Martyrdom, in this context, being defined as “mockery, slander, ostracism.”

mockery is the share they choose in the motions of the life eternal!

The mockery comes from a place unburdened by history and untouched by the present.

Our mockery of celebworld helps us evade the soul-crushing decadence concealed within.

I detected some mockery, the mockery of infidels, but I did not care.

But this delightful book has much more than mockery on its mind.

He looked at her haggardly, and she met his gaze with kind eyes in which there was no mockery.

If we are not truly penitent, this petition is a mockery on our lips.

But he did not profane that scene by the mockery of his art.

Then she fluttered a glance at him in which there was a gleam of mockery.