mockery

/ˈmɑkəri/

/ˈmɒkəri/

Other forms: mockeries

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.”

Definitions of mockery

1. noun

   showing your contempt by derision
   synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing

   type of:

   derision

   contemptuous laughter
2. noun

   humorous or satirical mimicry
   synonyms: parody, takeoff

   type of:

   apery, mimicry

   the act of mimicking; imitative behavior
3. noun

   a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
   synonyms: burlesque, charade, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty

   type of:

   caricature, imitation, impersonation

   a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect