Mockery | Mean of mockery in English Dictionary
/ˈmɑːkəri/
- Noun
- behavior or speech that makes fun of someone or something in a hurtful way
- The bright orange house was an object of mockery on our street. [=people mocked the house; people laughed at it and criticized it]
- His kind of personality invites mockery.
- the children's cruel mockery of each other
- a bad or useless copy of something
- The judge's decisions are a mockery of real justice. [=the judge's decisions are very unjust]
- The judge's decisions have made a mockery of the legal system.
- He's made a mockery of our marriage.