Usually means: Imitation intended to ridicule, scorn.
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  1. mockery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mockery, mockery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mockery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mockery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mockery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mockery, mockery: Wordnik
  7. mockery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mockery: Wiktionary
  9. mockery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mockery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mockery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mockery, mockery: Dictionary.com
  13. mockery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Mockery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mockery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mockery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mockery: Rhymezone
  18. mockery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mockery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Mockery: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. mockery: Free Dictionary
  22. mockery: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. mockery: Legal dictionary

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  1. Mockery: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
▸ noun:  Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
▸ noun:  Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

Similar:
scoffing, jeering, lampoon, spoof, travesty, pasquinade, parody, burlesque, sendup, charade, more...

Opposite:
compliment, praise

Types:
irony, sarcasm, satire, parody, burlesque, lampoon, caricature, more...

Phrases:
self mockery, make a mockery of, made a mockery, makes a mockery, making a mockery, more...

Adjectives:
mere, bitter, hollow, cruel, such, solemn, gentle, self, hideous, sheer, empty

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Similar:
scoffing, jeering, lampoon, spoof, travesty, pasquinade, parody, burlesque, sendup, charade, more...

Opposite:
compliment, praise

Types:
irony, sarcasm, satire, parody, burlesque, lampoon, caricature, more...

Phrases:
self mockery, make a mockery of, made a mockery, makes a mockery, making a mockery, colin mockery, bit of mockery, make a mockery, exclamation of mockery, to make a mockery, opposite of mockery, more...

Adjectives:
mere, bitter, hollow, cruel, such, solemn, gentle, self, hideous, sheer, empty

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     dull red,     pale yellow, more...



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