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mockery

/mok-uh-ree/US // ˈmɒk ə ri //UK // (ˈmɒkərɪ) //

嘲讽,嘲弄,讽刺,嘲笑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mock·er·ies.

    • : ridicule, contempt, or derision.
    • : a derisive, imitative action or speech.
    • : a subject or occasion of derision.
    • : an imitation, especially of a ridiculous or unsatisfactory kind.
    • : a mocking pretense; travesty: a mockery of justice.
    • : something absurdly or offensively inadequate or unfitting.

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Examples

  • Rodimer entered just hours before the filing deadline, drawing some mockery from fellow Republicans.

  • Football coaches at all levels have made a mockery of mask-wearing, with the NFL imposing hefty fines on coaches who expose their noses and mouths and some college conferences threatening to dock schools up to $1 million.

  • It makes a mockery of those rules to say that misallocating funds to decorate your office, for example, is punishable, but seeking to undo an election and inciting rioters are not.

  • In its lawsuit, the Justice Department argues that Facebook's hiring practices made a mockery of these requirements.

  • Revel in mirth as Borat makes a mockery of a pair of rubes with a Don’t Tread on Me flag who were kind enough to take him in in the midst of the covid-19 epidemic!

  • The mockery comes from a place unburdened by history and untouched by the present.

  • Our mockery of celebworld helps us evade the soul-crushing decadence concealed within.

  • Martyrdom, in this context, being defined as “mockery, slander, ostracism.”

  • But this delightful book has much more than mockery on its mind.

  • I detected some mockery, the mockery of infidels, but I did not care.

  • He drew himself up, twisted his moustache, and met her eyes—they were rather sad and tired—with the roguish mockery of his own.

  • A mockery of a government—a disgrace to the office pretended to be held—a parody on the position assumed.

  • He did not like his cynical way of looking at things, nor understand his mockery of current morality.

  • He could not go further, for it seemed to him like mockery to suggest by way of comfort that fourteen years would come to an end.

  • For all your sneers and your mockery you've always known I loved you the way a man loves a decent woman.