Mockery /(?)/

Mock·er·y

Mockery

n.

pl. Mockeries

  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.
    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.
  2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
    The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.
  3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
    The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery.