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单词 mockery
释义
mockery
noun
uk
/ˈmɒk.ər.i/us
/ˈmɑː.kɚ.i/
[U]
theactofmockingsomeone or something:
嘲笑，讥笑；模仿
Bill's mockery of hisdadwascruel, but it made uslaugh.比尔模仿他爸爸的做法有点残忍，不过我们都被逗笑了。
[S]
anactionoreventthatseemsstupidand withoutvalue:
嘲笑对象，笑柄
Thetrialwasamockery - thejudgehaddecidedtheverdictbefore itbegan.这次审判为人耻笑——法官在审判开始前就作出了判决。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Mocking and taunting
  • caricature
  • deride
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derisively
  • grief
  • haze
  • laugh insomeone'sfaceidiom
  • layyourselfopen to ridiculeidiom
  • make a mockery ofsomethingidiom
  • make a monkey out ofsomeoneidiom
  • mimic
  • mimicry
  • mock
  • parody
  • sardonic
  • sardonically
  • scoff
  • scoffer
  • self-caricature
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Idiom

make a mockery ofsomething
(Definition ofmockeryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mockery| American Dictionary

mockery
noun[U]
us
/ˈmɑk·ər·i/

mockerynoun[U](INSULT)

unkind,criticalremarksoractions, or something sofoolishthat it can beeasilycriticized:
Therenewedfightingmade a mockery of thepeaceagreement(= made itlookridiculous).
(Definition ofmockeryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmockery

mockery
One of the mockeries of the present age is that it is said that devaluation is an opportunity.
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We may be called upon, if we recognise this minimum wage, to consider whether the wages already granted are not vain and idle mockeries.
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If she does, she will find many mockeries already within the two and three-mile limits.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Once organized they were able to arrange punitive expeditions to the other quarters to punish the local boys for the mockeries.
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Without some level of promulgation, and of publication, he says, the practice of legislation is 'a cruelmockery'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I am glad that someone sneaks in there and makes amockeryof the business.
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The granting of amnesty and government posts to the rebels made amockeryof the basic principles of human rights and democracy.
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The second two ke9ilu tokens (275), however, are a self-mockeryof her own abundant use of ke9ilu.
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A cunningly devisedmockeryof freedom is guaranteed to them, and that is all.
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Rendering artists impotent throughmockeryand stereotyping (what is there to be afraid of ?).
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To refuse to grab such an opportunity to make a fortune is to make oneself an object of reproach in some cases or ofmockeryin others.
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The worst thing an orator could do was to sound only rehearsed or ' memorized'; to be caught speaking entirely by rote was to invitemockeryand condemnation.
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However, neither his language nor his attitude shows undilutedmockery.
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I tried to conjure up in my mind pictures of noctur nal landscapes, giving way to bloodstained quasi-ecclesiastical imagery and cruelmockery, returning f inally to nostalgia and sunlit warmth.
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Articulating the culturally current association between women and horses, opponents of fashionable dress attempted through moralizingmockeryto expose its fatuous character and make clear their own superior sensibilities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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