mockery

How To Use mockery In A Sentence

• a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
• The Chinese authorities remain acutely aware of Ai's complex and innovative heresy and in China, an "edgy" artist has to face greater challenges than mockery or dismissive critics. Ai Weiwei: The rebel who has suffered for his art
• Je vous prie de vous asseoir," he said on such an occasion with gentle mockery. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
• Why make a mockery of a real problem by inviting its perpetuators to condemn it?
• The trial was a mockery - the judge had decided the verdict before it began.
• The scorn and mockery heaped on this particular law firm was astonishing. Times, Sunday Times
• The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim?
• In each of these Leapor takes aim at that object of Scriblerian mockery, the beau.
• They were not objects of respect and veneration; they became objects of mockery.