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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOCK'ERY, n. The act of deriding and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.
1. Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things.
Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like mockery upon devotion, than any solemn application of the mind to God.
2. Sport; subject of laughter.
Of the holy place they made a mockery.
3. Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates.
It is as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.
4. Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -eries) Date: 15th century 1. insulting or contemptuous action or speech ; derision 2. a subject of laughter, derision, or sport 3. a. a counterfeit appearance ; imitation b. an insincere, contemptible, or impertinent imitation <makes a mockery of justice> 4. something ridiculously or impudently unsuitable

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a derision, ridicule. b a subject or occasion of this. 2 (often foll. by of) a counterfeit or absurdly inadequate representation. 3 a ludicrously or insultingly futile action etc. Etymology: ME f. OF moquerie (as MOCK)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If someone mocks you, you can refer to their behaviour or attitude as mockery. Was there a glint of mockery in his eyes?... 2. If something makes a mockery of something, it makes it appear worthless and foolish. This action makes a mockery of the Government's continuing protestations of concern... N-SING

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Ridicule, derision, scorn, jeering, contemptuous mimicry. 2. Sport, subject of ridicule. 3. Show, imitation, counterfeit. 4. Vain effort, fruitless labor.

Moby Thesaurus

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