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mockery Noun pl -eries 1. ridicule, contempt, or derision 2. a person, thing, or action that is so worthless that it seems like a parody: the interview was a mockery from start to finish 3. make a mockery of something to make something appear worthless or foolish: the judge's decision makes a mockery of the law
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mockery Translationsto make a mockery of → desprestigiar to make a mockery of → ridiculiser, tourner en dérision |
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, so soon retracted, had been nothing but a mockery; a mockery like his crown -- like his scepter -- like his friends -- like all that had surrounded his royal childhood, and which had abandoned his proscribed youth. bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old? There we sat, on our tall scaffold, the butt of the hate and mockery of all those enemies. |
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