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mockery

(= jeer) showing your contempt by derision (= parody) humorous or satirical mimicry (= parody) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

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Simple sentences

This is a mockery of justice.
Mockery is the food of fools.
We've become a mockery to the whole village.
I overheard their mockery.
As a result, he gets something which technically is correct, but in its essence is just a mockery.

Movie subtitles

If you think you can make a mockery of Yardley Publications, you're mistaken.
Now, Mr. Harland, I don't say this critically, nor in mockery nor to suggest that you are conceited.
What a mockery of democracy.
And for his dreams, I wonder he's so simple. to trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers.
The case made against these men is a mockery of all human justice.
You've made a mockery of English law.
I know what you're going to say. With the wedding I will win the family's fury and the mockery of friends.
I thought I detected mockery in his eyes.
He made a mockery. of everything Mr. Feldenstein tried to say in his own defense.
A mockery made of friendship and faith.
What kind of mockery is this?
Long enough for me to realise that our marriage is a farce, a mockery!
My hands. they look like withered branches. the water was a mockery.
O cant, O guile, O mockery!
In cynical mockery, Not for long.
They already sing in mockery about him and the King. In the taverns.
Stop this mockery!
You've got every man in this outfit thinking the uS Army is a mockery.
I sensed the mockery in his eyes.
Does she think we are made of stone like her gods.? that her being among us is not a mockery?
A pseudo-prayer would be a mockery.
Prayers are always a mockery.
The first time I came here, I lied to myself by thinking it was out of mockery.
You're making a mockery of your captain!
The whole thing is a heartless mockery.
In mockery?
I will accept this mockery. It's not our name that makes us honorable.
He made a mockery of everything Mr Feldenstein tried to say in his own defence.
No one who has sat through the trial can ever forget them. Men sterilised because of political belief. A mockery made of friendship and faith.
In this orgy of accusation, mockery and defamation, we'd all been lumped together.
And felt that the heavy mockery of the guys about his mother. had hastened this change, and precisely for this reason it should be sought and cultivated, this mockery.
This is a mockery of a trial!
The laws in this country are a mockery.
And listens to your mockery. Oh yes, I find it most interesting.

News and current affairs

But nowadays, such writers are hard to find, and their work is received by readers with mockery and sarcasm.
It is only too easy for them to point to the case of the cartoons and say: Now you see how western-style democracy and freedom of expression mean that you will face ridicule and mockery of your religious faith!
Indeed, the entire process of choosing these international institutions' leaders is a historical anachronism that undermines their effectiveness and makes a mockery of the G-7 countries' commitment to democracy.
In fact, all are squandering billions of dollars on modernization of their nuclear forces, making a mockery of United Nations disarmament pledges.
Likewise, an Islamic democracy with restrictions on non-religious parties would be a mockery of democracy and harmful to Islam.
But Russian memory is also subject to Western-style postmodernist mockery.
Do such post-election changes in direction make a mockery of democracy?
Australia's great drought this past year has similarly made a mockery of Howard's dismissive attitude toward climate change.
We live in a secular world, where free speech can easily turn into insensitive and irresponsible mockery, while others see religion as their supreme goal, if not their last hope.
It was making a mockery of men who should be tough and brave, but had become thugs instead.
While the US, the international community, and the Bank itself repeatedly emphasize the importance of good governance, a selection procedure that de facto leaves the appointment to the US president makes a mockery of it.
The growing calls of some state officials to deal with economic crime are viewed by the business community as both a mockery of the legal code and a veiled threat that the prosecutors want their cut of Russia's riches.
Parliamentarians were offended by press coverage of Queen Caroline's divorce in 1820, and by newspapers' mockery of King George IV.
That is why Charlie Hebdo's mockery of the sacred beliefs of minorities (Jews, Muslims, and gays alike) is not an act of bravery.
Are they not only winning more elections, but also finally able to campaign and govern with no more - or less - scrutiny, scandal, and mockery than their males peers?
MOSCOW - When a tsar is treated with mockery, rather than regarded with awe, it is time for him to consider retirement, or to prepare for a palace coup.
Indeed, they may well have wondered if the cunning ex-KGB men around Putin simply wanted to make Kaczynski's Katyn commemoration a mockery?
Now the eurozone - with a centralized monetary policy, run by the European Central Bank, alongside 27 national fiscal policies - has come to look like a mockery of economic common sense.
At the same time, Gazprom has evolved into the dominant market-maker in gas for Europe, and its actions have made a mockery of EU efforts at greater collaboration with Russia.
The country's ruling generals will twist what is meant to be a democratic process, whereby the people get to express their will, into a mockery of free expression in which people vote in fear and without hope.
Such an outcome would make a mockery of democracy.
But Taylor has wielded a heavy hand in the campaign, his impunity making a mockery of international justice.
The plight of so many millions of Roma in the twenty-first century makes a mockery of European values and stains Europe's conscience.
The fact that science is finding connections between women's sexual experience and their emotions and perception should not be cause for mockery, but for curiosity and respectful investigation of the facts.

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