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Sentence Examples Fisticuffs, drinking, and also mockery of power-holding elders were expressions of the exuberant energy of the young. The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity. Any objective scrutiny of the list of banned organisations makes a mockery of this last assertion. His tone held a hint of mockery and sarcasm when he addressed her as young lady. It's all too often clumsy, insincere and inappropriate, making a mockery of otherwise noble values. An immediate departure by the Dutchman would have made a mockery of all that had been constructed in his name. This will make a mockery of all the years of consultation and campaigning by so many local people. What has happened makes a mockery of what this Committee is considering today. Indeed, to suggest otherwise is to make a mockery of true individual liberty. To express any form of sympathy for them makes a mockery of what I feel for their victims. I think any time we profess something with our lips and we don't back it up with our lives, you make a mockery of what you say you believe. To move it would make a mockery of the numerous advertising campaigns that have played upon the beer's Mancunian heritage. They are making a mockery of RTE by getting free publicity by way of having their name bandied about on a current affairs program. His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in. We can detect that mockery as a characteristic thread throughout the oeuvre. But, have you ever had anyone try to make a mockery of you, try to take away your dignity, your pride, your own self-worth? The former Leicester City boss also believes that Porto's time-wasting and all-round behaviour made a mockery of UEFA's Fair Play campaign. They liked irreverence, taking the mickey, politically incorrect humour, mockery, satire. They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details. If I struggle, I shall wake, and find it a miscreated mockery of the brain. Show More Sentences For all groups to be subject to open criticism, including mockery and ridicule, has been a great leveller. With greetings of hope and yet of sarcastic mockery the crowd cheered his emerging form. It is an anarchic art, rooted in mockery, a ridiculous gesture towards the absurdity of the established order. A few words of mockery and sarcasm might have slipped, but generally, we were certainly not arch rivals. I don't agree with you and therefore I'm only worthy of your derision and mockery. Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim? For the first time, it seemed, there was no mockery or teasing in George's voice. Debate the guy, denounce him, subject him to ridicule and mockery at every opportunity. More straightforwardly aggressive 12 months ago, yesterday he mixed contempt with pitying mockery. Maybe I've strayed off-topic here, but I think that mockery and derision is, oddly enough, part of the stuff of taking religion seriously. Painful as it seems, and as much as we know that he's going to be found guilty, the trial can't just be a mockery of a real trial. The United States ambassador said the demonstrations were a mockery of the right of protest and freedom of assembly. To conclude, the April 30th referendum is a mockery of democracy and an encore of long-established patterns of political deceit in this country. Then, in a mockery of the political process, they set up a polling centre amongst the ruins and called it democracy. The Labour MP has branded the fines dolled out for breach of disability laws as a mockery of the government's zero tolerance policy. This dangerous double standard makes a sham and a mockery of the justice system. It would have been a mockery of the British way of life to stand by and let a man like him terrorise me on my own doorstep. You undermine minimal democracy itself, and are left with a mockery of political rights. The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks. Was his mockery of posters encouraging riding a bike meant to appeal to the narrow-minded prejudices of his more polluting punters? Show More Sentences This cannot but be sheer sophism of a militarist fanatic and an unpardonable mockery of the Koreans. It is hard to be brutally critical of this DVD beyond mockery and a good-natured ribbing. Unmarried women over twenty were considered spinsters, and bachelors in their late twenties were subjected to public censure and mockery. Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly. There aren't that many more sure-fire ways to ensure your own mockery than to bring up UFOs in a serious conversation. What entered now was the sound of the hums and moans of everyday life, the quiet laugher, the mockery, the sound of horses and oxen. The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire. Why make a mockery of a real problem by inviting its perpetuators to condemn it? Kathryn rolled her eyes scathingly and made a deal of staring fawningly at the castle, her eyes glittering with mockery. This pitiful look is destroyed by this lady's mockery, which draws to similar action those who perhaps might well see that piteousness. He was the perfect guide to Iran, at once making a mockery of Iranian hostility to the West and fiercely proud of his homeland. Huntsmen say they have made a mockery of the law by legally killing a fox, only hours after the hunting ban came into force. There are the cutting remarks, the sarcasm, the mockery, the name calling and in some cases cursing. Emma gave a short laugh of mockery but quickly turned it into a cough when Kathryn began looking daggers at her. With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery. There has been enough mockery in the Western media concerning the proclivity of Chinese people to create counterfeit Western goods. Her voice dripped with the sharpness of mockery as she pronounced these last words. The opening scene sets the stage for the denial episode at the end of the passage and encases the mockery of law in the center. We don't all have to start quoting scripture, we just have to dial down the mockery a notch. She also recalled that when she first approached her neighbors about greening the area, she was met with mockery and rejection. Show More Sentences Even genial mockery largely dried up for a while, replaced by an unprecedented flood of patriotic gush and mush. With unrelenting precision and distinct overtones of mockery, Tolstoy dissects the notion that men dictate events. Pushing children into dysfunctional or poorly functioning schools is making a mockery of the right to education. Clearly, their behavior in the past eight years blatantly contradicts these principles and makes a mockery of their promises. If he was a fool, what were those his folly whipped into orgies of vicious mockery? If insulted, he retaliated swiftly and turned mockery against its instigator. It will make a mockery of the federal judiciary constitutional structure and religions. The bill makes a mockery of the double-dividend-tax repeal the President is seeking, with its partial, phased-in cut that would cancel out the desired effects. To do so makes a mockery of what the playoffs should be all about. He was making a mockery of how our society works and our expectations. With a pair or so of Carley floats decorating her side and several overall coats of drab grey she constituted a mockery of what she had once been. It's a travesty, a mockery of our Constitutional system, and they will not rest until this hideous distortion of all that is good and decent has been ended once and for all. He is making a mockery of all this in his business dealings and justifying his actions by saying he has to be competitive with the rest of the world. After a week when racing has come under scrutiny over trainers allegedly cheating, two rank outsiders made a mockery of the conspiracy theories yesterday. Is it an important step towards reconciliation or a mockery of democracy? The mockery comes from a place unburdened by history and untouched by the present. In a bitterly angry riposte Benveniste described the investigation as a mockery of scientific inquiry, and compared it to a Salem witch hunt or a McCarthyite prosecution. It's a kind of Carry On Shakespeare, a loving send-up without mockery. It's also true that friends and colleagues in the workplace are sometimes very supportive of people with disabilities, but that fades in the face of mimicry and mockery. The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight. Show More Sentences There may have been feelings too painful to probe, feelings for which he overcompensated by an excess of not entirely convincing sardonic mockery. Nowadays, with the mere mention of its name inducing mockery at Europe's top table, it performs the unheroic function of ensuring humiliation for smaller clubs and nations. Oblivious self-entitlement is now so widespread and suitable for mockery that the ostensible cure has begun to follow in its wake. But amidst society's contempt and mockery, young people built a movement strong enough to make Congress realize the practicality of lowering the voting age. But the whole book smacks of self righteous mockery and I hardly think this is the way a responsible, caring parent would wish to raise their children. They tend to resort to non-argument methods like non-validated dismissiveness, arrogance, viciousness, dogpiling, lies, contempt, mockery, vulgarity. Satire is an exaggeration of the truth, not the mockery of falsehood. More damagingly, it has made a mockery of the entire inspection process. His face was inches from hers, his icy grey eyes glinting with mockery. How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? The way you pranced and frolic around, dressed in so called Native American attire, is a mockery of our way of life and culture. You are a Cheever, my father would tell his children with a buoyancy in his voice which suggested both seriousness and mockery. The idea of a blanket warrant is a mockery of the Fourth Amendment requirement of probable cause. He believes that mockery, disparagement, or airing personal grudges are never appropriate. After hearing Diesel's mockery of an Asian accent, Yao told reporters that Chinese in fact was difficult to learn he struggled to master it himself. Favre, an egomaniac, became the subject of yet another round of mockery as a result of this scandal. Our mockery of celebworld helps us evade the soul-crushing decadence concealed within. But the bombshell first lady's attempt to play the everywoman during this campaign was met with some mockery. His voice was absolutely sincere, with no mockery or sarcasm even hinted. The trailer shows a few seconds of gameplay before the camera pans round to show a nauseatingly smug lifestyler hamming her way through a mockery of the control scheme. Show More Sentences His mockery of bourgeois values and high society, both of which he rose above through personality and style, illuminated the dandy's appeal to Depression-era audiences. In the first eleven months, burglars broke into 1,734 houses and looted valuables worth crores of rupees, making a mockery of the night police patrol. As a northerner who is admittedly guilty of having done some southern bashing in my time, I am ashamed of the intellectual vanity of these people, and of my own past mockery. The action by the local Council has created furore among ramblers, who say that the action was wrong and a mockery of consultation procedures laid down by law. I notice that your decision to send your son to a private school is embarrassing you, making a mockery of what you've said in the past about education. The guffaws and giggles cackled around the school for all to hear and my bubble of individuality was burst with the finality that only mockery by one's peers can accomplish. That would be absurd and make a mockery of the entire project. It's a mockery of the game to play it in forcibly sanitized conditions. They've perverted the constitution, corrupted our institutions, made a mockery of our schools, a nightmare of our cities, destroyed the middle class. I detected some mockery, the mockery of infidels, but I did not care. Gladstone had absented himself from the funeral, with his plea of the press of public business met with public mockery. John, who was leader of the club, took the attempted mockery and turned it into a title of honour. Pale Fire is festooned with atomic references and a mockery of peaceniks. The election was also seen as a settling of party scores and a mockery of his title. It was intended as mockery but backfired, coming to be used in a neutral or friendly fashion. They have been used to impart profound wisdom and humorous mockery. In Warhol it found its self-image, ready-made for idolatry and mockery. The routine was funny because by juxtaposing one style of music with a different style of vocalism he made a mockery of both. It is not difficult to read all this mockery of Eve's acting technique as a teasing message from Hitchcock to his own daughter. The constitution hullabaloo goes against the grain, a fescennine mockery of justice. Show More Sentences But this delightful book has much more than mockery on its mind. I dare not speak my mind for fear of extreme mockery from some smartarse like me, of course. And he claimed the bloated Ofgem salaries make a mockery of Government claims to be cutting back on bureaucracy, waste and qangos. In this way, the filmmaker uses the Chinese culture's most symbolic artifact, its ideographs, as a basis for gentle mockery. It was not intended dilatorily or as mockery or condescension. England certainly made a mockery of the claim that they might somehow be intimidated by the Glasgow din. Celtic Park was a loud, seething pit of bias. The arrival in the UK last month of a parasite called a gall mite, which disfigures fuchsias, made a mockery of Britain's plant health defences, he claimed. There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side. Most importantly, it has made a mockery of democracy as it has put in place a civilian autocracy where merit has been replaced by dynasticism, Mazari asserted. Without a shadow of a doubt, what they are doing is wrong, but I can't adopt a pious, holier-than-thou attitude to a few ex-miners making a mockery of a system open to abuse. Examples from Classical Literature He had come to cozen me into letting him use me in return for a mockery of an honor. It was a mockery of their bravado, a belittlement of their bluff and swagger in the brief day of their oppression. He had none of the mockery which is so searing and blighting a thing to hot youth. The sun shone with a brilliance that to such eyes as mine was a very mockery. Your praying is useless, and your churchgoing mere mockery of God, if you have not plain obedience in you enough for this. And what a rare organ must constructiveness be, when even in its mockery it can yield such pleasure! He looked at her haggardly, and she met his gaze with kind eyes in which there was no mockery. He might degrade Marcolina by mockery and lascivious phrases, full of innuendo. Soon after, the mighty menaces of Caligula against them ended in mockery and derision. The principal constituent element in this fescennine poetry was obscene mockery. But just as it takes two to make a quarrel, so the obscene mockery of the fescennine verses required two principals. A cunningly devised mockery of freedom is guarantied to them, and that is all. I ventured in 1896 to suggest that the interpolator was trying to please Pisistratus, but this was said in a spirit of mockery. The wise man, Ulysses, suggests that he be brought from his sulks by mockery. Then she arose from her sofa, clashing the folds of her tilter until the room was full of lustring mockery. I had listened in a sort of fascination to that tirade of venomous mockery. The light mockery of her tone struck him as the echo of an unforgotten air. There was a demon of mockery playing in the curves of the scarlet lips, as she smiled so winsomely. Methought his detestable features at length enlarged, moved, and were writhen in mockery and scorn. Its very name, too, seemed a mockery, dwelling as it did in that vast solitude. Show More Sentences Your marriage to her can only be considered as the veriest mockery. He felt, of course, the mockery of this frustration of his powers. And his party all a fizzle unless you come, and his GAI'ty a mockery! There was a breathlessness in his utterance which contrasted with the monstrous hint of mockery in his intention. Some laughed, M. Binet amongst them, with good-humoured mockery. Such a word was a mockery in the mouth of such a voluptuary. The solitude of the Palais Royal has become a mockery and a solecism. Fairholme, suspecting mockery, frowned, and Miss Wilson looked severely at the mocker. It was as if an evil spirit possessed the child, and had just then peeped forth in mockery. I've had many a laugh at her perplexities and untold troubles, which she vainly strove to hide from my mockery. This the boy also resented as savoring of mockery, and he kicked again. And his smile fell now in mockery upon the disillusioned lad. Unscrupulous arms dealers continue to get away with grave human rights abuses and make a mockery of the UN Security Council's efforts. Then she fluttered a glance at him in which there was a gleam of mockery. As always his mockery procured him a new flood of invectives. The pteranodon rose, sounding its raucous croak as if in mockery. Let no one suspect me of lauding the mockery of virtue in what I say here. I told him that he might abstain in future from such a mockery of love. But he did not profane that scene by the mockery of his art. The crew were enjoined to assail him with insulting mockery. Show More Sentences Across the thin lips that composed the cruel slash of his mouth played twitches of mockery that caught Fatty's eye. Once, in boyish mockery of Narcissus, he had kissed, or feigned to kiss, those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him. Bread turned away and began to blow the dust off the statue, as if this might be mockery. I gritted my teeth at him, danced up and down, screaming an incoherent mockery and making antic faces. Or again, a mischievousness and mockery would steal into her mood. If we are not truly penitent, this petition is a mockery on our lips. I believe that wine is a mocker, and belief in wine as a benefit, mockery. Although you don't know his name you make a mockery of his form, following the example of Voltaire. To call the paltry jest preserved by salat a letter, is mere mockery. And while the Goverment insists these perverts are constantly monitored, the reality of their victims' suffering makes a mockery of those assurances. His figured panoply of death looked more like a disguise assumed in mockery than a fierce annunciation of a desire to carry destruction in his footsteps. What a hellish mockery it was, anyway, that a man should slave to make harvesting machines for the country, only to be turned out to starve for doing his duty too well! The boy went like a bullet through the tangle of this tale of crooked politics and crazy mockery and came out on the other side, pursuing his own unspoiled purposes. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of mockery? Words that rhyme with mockery What is the plural of mockery? What is the adverb for mockery? What is the adjective for mockery? What is the noun for mockery? Translations for mockery Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words mockers mockernut mockeries mocker mocked mockable mock-heroic mocking mockingbird mockingly mock-orange mocks 7-letter Words Starting With m mo moc mock mocke mocker