mockery

  1. Noun.  The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
  2. Noun.  Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
  4. Noun.  Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

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