mockery
mockery
noun
/ˈmɒkəri/
(plural mockeries)
1 ​uncountable, countable comments or actions that are intended to make somebody/something seem silly
SYNONYM ridicule, scorn
She couldn't stand any more of their mockery.
His smile was full of mockery.
The government has left itself open to mockery and ridicule.
2 ​countable, usually singular (disapproving) an action, a decision, etc. that is a failure and that is not as it is supposed to be
SYNONYM travesty
It was a mockery of a trial.
TOPICS Difficulty and failure C2
Idioms
make a mockery of something
Word Origin
late Middle English: from Old French moquerie, from mocquer ‘to deride’.
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