How to Use mockery in a Sentence

mockery

noun
  • His kind of personality invites mockery.
  • But these films make a mockery of that idea.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • There is no sign of mockery but a sense of belief.
    — Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Just don't make a mockery of your own creation.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Much of the mockery came from the sports jocks and guys bigger than me.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The right regards the Hunter plea deal as a mockery of the law.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And more sneering mockery of an old man hooked up to an oxygen tank.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • But the criticism and mockery was all over the ‘net.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The self-mockery strikes a tone of gothic camp which relieves the gloom.
    — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • For such dishonesty doesn’t just make a mockery of truth, but of us.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The first debate was full of mockery, name-calling and taunts.
    — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • And so the two men, wielding their mockery, make a show of each chortle and smirk.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But a little mockery needn’t impede that task.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
  • This is a mockery to our Court System!
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But Teigen was ready with a little bit of very gentle mockery.
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Simone Biles makes a mockery of the idea that women are weak or timid.
    — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • In some ways, the stickers are public mockery and a kind of karma.
    — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, amid the flood of mockery, nary a soul offered a bit of helpful advice.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • While some students clapped and yelled, others saw the act as a mockery of their campus.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • And the Parthians, as some say, poured molten gold into his mouth in mockery.
    — Andrea Frediani, National Geographic, 11 June 2019
  • There are oodles of self-mockery here, yet never quite enough, and the plot is a rum affair.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Still, the launch met with a fair amount of mockery for making the wearer look, well, silly.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 8 June 2023
  • The bank has faced criticism and mockery on social media for its role in the deal.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021
  • And this is an army that has been an object of mockery by the American left.
    — WSJ, 13 Mar. 2017
  • This is how Trump and Moore have made a mockery of our democracy.
    — Guest Voices, AL.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • There is only scorched earth, and mockery, and enmity.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • To allow some people to vote twice makes a mockery of our electoral systems.
    — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But mockery and mischief, not politics, were the point.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2026
  • And the Court’s attempts to do so only made a mockery of the justices.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 June 2025
  • The mockery of him that went a step too far unveiled a strain of pathos that caused masks and illusions to drop away.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019

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