| 单词 | mockery |
| 释义 | mockery (once / 906 pages) n The noun mockery means ridicule or making a fool out of someone. Mockery of your history teacher is unwise just before she grades your mid-term exams. Mockery is making fun of or mocking someone or something. The act of mockery often involves copying someone's behavior or speech, making it look absurd, like a parody. For example, comedians often get laughs with mockery, by pretending to be famous politicians and exaggerating the way they talk or gesture. The expression "to make a mockery of" means to make something appear foolish or absurd, even if that’s not the intent — like a trial that “makes a mockery of justice.” WORD FAMILYmockery: mockeries+/mock: mocked, mocker, mockery, mocking, mockly, mocks/mocker: mockers/mocking: mockingly USAGE EXAMPLESTo her credit, Karen “recognized that her life was ripe for mockery.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The move drew mockery online from fed-up citizens with even state media publishing rare criticism. BBC(Dec 26, 2016) Students, educators and the public disagreed whether the professor’s costume was a dumb mistake or offensive mockery. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n showing your contempt by derision Syn|Hyper jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing derision contemptuous laughter 2n humorous or satirical mimicry Syn|Hyper parody, takeoff apery, mimicry the act of mimicking; imitative behavior 3n a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way Syn|Hyper burlesque, charade, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty caricature, imitation, impersonation a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect |
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