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Definition of Mockery
1. Noun. Showing your contempt by derision.
Generic synonyms: Derision
Derivative terms: Jeer, Jeer, Mock, Scoff, Scoff, Scoff, Scoff
2. Noun. A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way.
Generic synonyms: Caricature, Imitation, Impersonation
Derivative terms: Burlesque, Burlesque, Lampoon, Parodist, Parody, Spoof, Take Off
3. Noun. Humorous or satirical mimicry.
Generic synonyms: Apery, Mimicry
Derivative terms: Parodist, Parody, Take Off
Definition of Mockery
1. n. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
Definition of Mockery
1. Noun. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision. ¹
2. Noun. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc. ¹
4. Noun. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mockery
1. the act of mocking [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mockery
Literary usage of Mockery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"... a King and Queen whose children would trace mockery to ... spirit which prompted
this mockery soon showed The early itself in a more dangerous shape. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... watch, and banish sleep, Lest we should fall, a mockery to our foes." He spoke,
and cross'd the trench, and with him went Who of the Argive chieftains ..."
3. The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets by Vida Dutton Scudder (1895)
"From this play of conflicting shadows, from this kaleidoscopic world where the
saint is the whore and the hero mockery of is the dastard and the seer is the ..."
4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... would have ventured, even in mockery, to blazon forth a seditious claim of
this sort unless it were the regular formula employed on such occasions, ..."
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