mockery
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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
Charlie Kirk had been barely put to rest before public attitude toward him shifted from bipartisan horror and outrage at his killing to, frankly, mockery.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The tabloid mockery was largely dismissive of the couple's rare achievement in Hollywood.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Leon accepted this small hint of mockery from Johnson because he was in such a good mood.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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
Banksy often invokes everyday British life, with references to the Tesco supermarket chain and mockeries of Parliament and the royal family.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
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
Boston Dynamics’ creatures are like cruel, surreal techno-parodies of organic life, absurdist mockeries of living things.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2013
"Well, well!" sighed Jack, as he closed his eyes, and appeared as if indulging in a revery, "of all the mockeries I have lived to see unmasked, this is the worst and meanest."
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of 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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