mockery

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noun

Plural noun:

mockeries

1.
(countable, uncountable)The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
2.
(countable, uncountable)Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
4.
(countable, uncountable)Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English mokkery, from mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (to mock) + -erie (-ery), perhaps from μωκός (mocker), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (scheme, plot). Equivalent to mock + -ery.