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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Mockery \Mock"er*y\, 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.
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              It is, as the air, invulnerable,
              And our vain blows malicious mockery. --Shak.
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              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.
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              And bear about the mockery of woe.    --Pope.
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     2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous
        merriment; derision; ridicule.
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              The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. --Spenser.
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     3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
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              The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a
              mockery.                              --2 Macc.
                                                    viii. 17.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Mockery \Mock"er*y\, 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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  mockery
       n 1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, scoff,
             scoffing]
       2: a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous
          way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, takeoff,
           burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on]
       3: humorous or satirical mimicry [syn: parody, takeoff]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mockery
     n.
     1 The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
     2 Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule;
  a laughing-stock.
     3 (lb en obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively
  futile action, gesture etc.
     4 mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty,
  a ridiculous simulacrum.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  mockery
     n.
     1 The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
     2 Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule;
  a laughing-stock.
     3 (lb en obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively
  futile action, gesture etc.
     4 mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty,
  a ridiculous simulacrum.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  mockery
     n.
     1 The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
     2 Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule;
  a laughing-stock.
     3 (lb en obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively
  futile action, gesture etc.
     4 mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty,
  a ridiculous simulacrum.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  mockery
     n.
     1 The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
     2 Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule;
  a laughing-stock.
     3 (lb en obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively
  futile action, gesture etc.
     4 mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty,
  a ridiculous simulacrum.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mockery
     Englanti n.
     pilkka, iva

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mockery
     Engelska n.
     hån

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  aanfluiting

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  المهزلة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  mockery //ˈmɑkəɹi// //ˈmɒkəɹi// 
  насмешка, подигравка, присмех
  action of mocking; ridicule, derision

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/ 
  výsměch

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/ 
  posměch

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  Spott , Spöttelei , Spötterei , Gespött , Hohn , Häme  [geh.]
        "mockery and ridicule"  - Hohn und Spott
        "It almost sounds like mockery."  - Es klingt beinahe wie Spott.
     Synonym: ridicule
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  
  κοροϊδία, παρωδία, χλευασμός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  mockery //ˈmɑkəɹi// //ˈmɒkəɹi// 
  iva
  action of mocking; ridicule, derision

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  mockery /mɔkəriː/
  simulacre

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/ 
  1. मज़ाक
        "Don't make a mockery of everything."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  ismijavanje, ruganje, ruglo, sprdnja

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  1. csúfolódás
  2. utánzás
  3. gúnyolás
  4. majmolás
  5. kigúnyolás
  6. kicsúfolás
  7. nevetséges utánzat
  8. gúny tárgya
  9. csúfolás
  10. porhintés
  11. hamis látszat
  12. megtévesztés

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  mockery /mɔkəriː/
  1. bespotting, persiflage
  2. aanfluiting
  3. spot, spotternij

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  mockery /ˈmɒkərɪ/ 
   1.  drwina
   2.  kpina
   3.  make a mockery of sth (make V: :a :mockery :of NP)
   - robić z czegoś kpiny, kpić

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  mockery /mˈɒkəɹi/
  1. istihza
  2. alay, alay edilecek şey
  3. taklit, alay manasında taklit, alay manasında taklitçilik
  4. manasız iş.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈmɑkɝi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  181 Moby Thesaurus words for "mockery":
     a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, abuse,
     affront, aggressive mimicry, apery, aspersion, atrocity, bagatelle,
     banter, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, booing, brass farthing,
     brickbat, burlesque, butt, button, byword, byword of reproach,
     caricature, casuistry, catcalling, cent, chaffing, contempt,
     contumely, crossed fingers, cryptic mimicry, curio, cut, decrial,
     derision, despite, disappointment, disdain, disingenuousness,
     disparagement, dump, dupe, emptiness, enormity, fair game, farce,
     farthing, feather, fig, figure of fun, fleabite, fleering,
     flippancy, flout, flouting, folderol, fool, fooling, fribble,
     frippery, game, gaud, gazingstock, gewgaw, gibe, gimcrack, goat,
     grinning, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hissing, hollow mockery,
     hollowness, hooting, humiliation, imitation, impersonation,
     indignity, injury, insincerity, insult, jeer, jeering, jest,
     jester, jestingstock, jesuitry, joke, joshing, kickshaw,
     knickknack, knickknackery, lampoon, laugh, laughingstock, leering,
     levity, mimicry, minikin, miscarriage, mock, molehill, monkey,
     offense, outrage, panning, parody, parrotry, pasquinade, pastiche,
     peppercorn, picayune, pilgarlic, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick,
     playing possum, protective coloration, put-down, ragging, raillery,
     rallying, rap, razzing, red cent, ridicule, roasting, row of pins,
     rush, satire, scoff, scoffing, scorn, scurrility, semblance, sham,
     shit, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, snap, sneering,
     sneeshing, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sophistry, sou, spoof,
     sport, squib, stock, straw, synaposematic mimicry, take-off,
     takeoff, target, taunt, taunting, tongue in cheek, toy, travesty,
     trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twitting, two cents,
     twopence, uncandidness, uncandor, uncomplimentary remark,
     unfrankness, victim, whim-wham, wicked imitation
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 嘲弄,笑柄,蔑视;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 嘲弄,笑柄,蔑视

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