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mockery

[mok-uh-ree] / ˈmɒk ə ri /




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Some of those videos were subsequently shared on social media and led to cases of mockery or hateful messages, leading to the Paris public prosecutor opening an investigation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

And Ms. Bioh has the girls’ attitudes to her take an implausibly abrupt turn from sycophancy to snickering mockery when Ericka exposes the hollowness of her pretensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

At first, the relationship was mostly the source of mockery that someone of the his stature apparently needs a full-time ego masseuse who often totes around enormous bags, which have generated speculation about their contents.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Burnham's exploits online have already brought mockery and launched a thousand memes.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Olanna wondered if Mohammed’s lightness hid a more serious mockery.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Probably, therefore, the likeness would not be recognized in Bogotá, but it will always be endeared to us by the memory of the many mockeries suffered from him.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by William Dean Howells




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