What is "mockery"

Usage examples of "mockery".

But Atene could bear no more of this mockery, more venomed than her own steel.

The Baptist had been tried and condemned before this mockery had ever begun.

The other eye was bloodshot, and protruded as if in mockery of the cartoon eye on the piece of paper Blok held.

Buffo the Great, the terrible Buffo, hilarious, appalling, devastating Buffo with his round, white face and the inch-wide rings of rouge round his eyes, and his four-cornered mouth, like a bow tie, and, mockery of mockeries, under his roguishly cocked, white, conical cap, he wears a wig that does not simulate hair.

Edward Hamilton, they were always duskily illuminated by this expression of mockery and malice.

Miram and gave her a promise which made the earlier electrifying mockery of the shipmen appear a probable understatement of her fate.

Nom Anor was to the gamesmanship of politics, the subtle mockery of this half-pagan creature was too much.

Despite the formality of the gesture, there was an air of mockery about his friend that would have infuriated Gell, had it come from anyone else.

From Carraglas to Gloit, from the shops of Sirlptar to the taverns in your own towns and villages, folk will hear my mockeries of you!

Peter Hynd were in the kitchen with them, his eyes dancing with mockery.

By his brooding on the perpetual failure, not only of others, but of himself, to live up to his imaginative ideals, his consequent cynical scorn for humanity, the jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his ideals and the unworthiness of the world in disregarding them, his wincings and mockeries under the sting of the petty disillusions which every hour spent among men brings to his infallibly quick observation, he has acquired the half tragic, half ironic air, the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left him nothing but undying remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the grandmothers of his English contemporaries.

He had laughed it off on his return, mimicking the pompous old hypocrite, but she had felt the rage beneath the mockery and, on the whole, would have preferred that he did not meet Mueran so soon afterwards.

The Mugwump sidles around the boy goosing him and caressing his genitals in hieroglyphs of mockery.

The Court was at Colorno, but having nothing to gain from this mockery of a court, and wishing to leave for Bologna the next morning, I asked Dubois-Chateleraux, Chief of the Mint, and a talented though vain man, to give me some dinner.

Order of the Garter, which is a prostituted oligarchical creation of the British royal family, which makes a mockery of what the Sovereign Order of St.