Synonyms for mockery
ˈmɒk ə rimock·e·ry

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1. mockery

   Banter is the touching upon some fault, weakness, or fancied secret of another in a way half to pique and half to please; badinage is delicate, refined banter. Raillery has more sharpness, but is usually good-humored and well meant. Irony, the saying one thing that the reverse may be understood, may be either mild or bitter. All the other words have a hostile intent. Ridicule makes a person or thing the subject of contemptuous merriment; derision seeks to make the object derided seem utterly despicable — to laugh it to scorn. Chaff is the coarse witticism of the streets, perhaps merry, oftener malicious; jeering is loud, rude ridicule, as of a hostile crowd or mob. Mockery is more studied, and may include mimicry and personal violence, as well as scornful speech. A satire is a formal composition; a sarcasm may be an impromptu sentence. The satire shows up follies to keep people from them; the sarcasm hits them because they are foolish, without inquiring whether it will do good or harm; the satire is plainly uttered; the sarcasm is covert.

   Synonyms:
   badinage, banter, chaff, derision, irony, jeering, raillery, ridicule, sarcasm, satire

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1. jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffingnoun

   showing your contempt by derision

   Synonyms:
   jeering, parody, charade, spoof, jeer, lampoon, scoff, pasquinade, burlesque, travesty, scoffing, sendup, put-on, takeoff

2. parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-onnoun

   a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

   Synonyms:
   jeer, fraud, prank, joke, trick, scoff, takeoff, caper, farce comedy, parody, hoax, spoof, put-on, humbug, farce, burlesque, travesty, scoffing, antic, pasquinade, jeering, sendup, lampoon, dupery, charade, fraudulence

3. parody, mockery, takeoffnoun

   humorous or satirical mimicry

   Synonyms:
   parody, burlesque, sendup, charade, spoof, jeer, lampoon, scoff, pasquinade, jeering, takeoff, scoffing, travesty, put-on

Matched Categories

1. • Caricature
   • Derision
   • Mimicry

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. mockerynoun

   Synonyms:
   ridicule, derision, scorn, jeering, contemptuous mimicry

2. mockerynoun

   Synonyms:
   sport, subject of ridicule

3. mockerynoun

   Synonyms:
   show, imitation, counterfeit

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1. mockerynoun

   Synonyms:
   mimicry, ridicule, derision, jeering, scouting, counterfeit, sham, travesty, farce, disappointment

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1. List of paraphrases for "mockery":

   travesty, farce, parody, derision, charade, ridicule, insult, irony, caricature, masquerade, sham, satire, joke, affront

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How to use mockery in a sentence?

1. Emmanuel Macrons:

   I often say that if the age relationship were to be inverted, it wouldn't shock anybody, people would find it great, she is beautiful, and the fact that she's 20 years older than I am is terrible, because it is an issue of mockery, of terrible discourtesy. I give in to nothing, but it has taught us a lot, including in politics. We never build ourselves in relation to others' gaze.

2. Charlotte Bronte:

   No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

3. Sunai Phasuk:

   Prayuth seems to have very thin skin when it comes to tolerance for criticism and mockery, he is making himself untouchable.

4. Chrissy Teigen:

   I'm going through a lot right now and I would never silence myself. I definitely don't make a mockery out of bullying or sex trafficking or sex shaming. There's something that triggers me at this point with Chrissy and that's fine but it's still disturbing.

5. Peter Saunders:

   He is making a mockery of the papal commission (into child abuse), of the Pope himself, but most of all of the victims and the survivors, he has a catalog of denigrating people, of acting with callousness, cold-heartedness, almost sociopathic I would go as far as to say, this lack of care.