Sentence examples for mockery from high-quality English sources.

• The hint of mockery is fair.

• He’s getting stronger on Manuel García’s mockery!

• Making a mockery of it is putting you further away from a solution.

• But the outfits were such radical departures from the norm that they invited intense mockery and distracted from broader conversations about women’s rights, so the suffrage fighters gave them up.

• Mockery cleanses clichés, and then restores emotion.

• Writers from former Eastern-bloc countries—Milan Kundera, for example—have often asserted that laughter and mockery were ways of saying no to that world.

• When the YouTuber Trevor Wallace posted a tongue-in-cheek video "*drinks White Claw once*" teasing seltzer bros obsessed with the beverage, Gajiwala and his team embraced the mockery.

• It steers a course along the very line that separates mockery of the vulgarity of anti-semitism and mockery of a vulgar (because unnerved, and overstated) version of anti-semitism.

Use mockery in a sentence.

• The centennial 50 years ago coincided with the civil rights movement, and most of the South was still effectively segregated, making a mockery of any notion that the slaves had truly become free and equal.

• Luce understands that Andrew means to affect a comical tone, a sort of cartoon rhetoric, to soften the mockery and the annoyance he so clearly feels; yet “catastrophizing” also acknowledges the very real, the surely imminent catastrophe.)

•   (1) Remedies for bleeding, which fail to check it, are a mockery;   (2) Tincture of Calendula is not to be despised;   (3) Remedies, which will check the bleeding when you cut your finger, are useful;   (4) All mock remedies for bleeding are despicable.

• Oblivious corporate events on gender equality, which often feature all-male panels and a total lack of women speakers, are a favourite target for disdain and mockery online - however, despite the misleading title, the Men Matter conference had good intentions.

• The America First Caucus' mission statement also parroted many of Trump's lies about the 2020 election and voter fraud, saying, "Recent election results demonstrate a compromised integrity of our elections and made our election system a subject of global mockery."

• They say the absence of practical measures to protect BAME people or any discussion of structural racism from the government-commissioned report this week on Covid-19 disparities makes a mockery of Matt Hancock’s statement in the Commons that “black lives matter”.

• That claim has met with widespread mockery and fury, including from pro-Western liberals who despair at what they see as America’s turn, since President Trump’s 2016 election, toward a Soviet-style mind-set that blames all domestic problems on foreign machinations.

• Security analyst Alejandro Hope opined that Cienfuegos' exoneration was barely newsworthy, while Maite Azuela, a columnist for the newspaper El Universal, said the decision to drop the charges against him made a "clear mockery" of the federal government's anti-corruption fight.

mockery sentence examples

• Of course, Beijing itself has undermined that strategy with its brutal crackdown on pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong and on the city's autonomy, making a mockery of the "One Country, Two Systems" approach that Chinese leaders once put forward as a template for unification with Taiwan.

• Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said appointing Grayling would “make a mockery” of the cross-party Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees secret agencies MI5 and MI6 and the government’s GCHQ listening post, and is cleared to see intelligence material denied to other MPs.

• The likes of paternal but disengaged CEO Ken Lay, cutthroat man-behind-the-curtain Jeff Skilling, and ethically blind numbers whiz Andy Fastow vividly come to life as they make a mockery of conventional accounting practices and grow increasingly arrogant and bind to their collective hubris.

• Emily and Vryling’s mighty mockery of New England mores with their rapier-like aphorisms is also a mockery of the social instruments, of church and family, government and press, with which Emily herself is restrained and relegated to her own narrow limits in pursuit of a boundless inner freedom.