mockery
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Burnham's exploits online have already brought mockery and launched a thousand memes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Now, after much mockery and controversy, minimalist footwear is hotter than ever.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
A "Great American State Fair" in the capital designed as a celebration of the country's birthday has drawn sparse crowds and widespread mockery for its empty booths.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Instead they have banded together in a rare display of gentle mockery of an organization that doesn’t mess around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
On the threshold of the room stood Nat Eaton, slim, straight-shouldered, without a trace of mockery in his level blue eyes.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Why have our finest actors been forced to make mockeries of themselves, looking like the Jolly Green Giant if he were holding a normal-sized microphone?
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Mena believes the Black Paintings to be mockeries in the same spirit – cartoons he drew around himself as if the walls were “big sheets of paper”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2019
The mockeries in this “Henry V” do point to truths — and they’re also a lot of fun.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2018
Boston Dynamics’ creatures are like cruel, surreal techno-parodies of organic life, absurdist mockeries of living things.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2013
These are, indeed, the realities; and what we are in the habit of calling such are the mere mockeries and semblances of fact!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
Vocabulary lists containing mockery
"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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