mockery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mockery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mockery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mockery n showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing] a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way Synonym(s): parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on humorous or satirical mimicry Synonym(s): parody, mockery, takeoff
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mockery \Mock"ery\, n.; pl. {Mockeries}. [F. moquerie.] 1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. --Shak. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery* upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. --Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. --Pope. 2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. --Spenser. 3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. --2 Macc. viii. 17.