mockery
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n , pl -eries | |
| 1. | ridicule, contempt, or derision |
| 2. | a derisive action or comment |
| 3. | an imitation or pretence, esp a derisive one |
| 4. | a person or thing that is mocked |
| 5. | a person, thing, or action that is inadequate or disappointing |
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Example sentences
Its lingua franca was parody, but playful mockery was never its aim.
The bathos is all mockery, however, and the more epic the track becomes the better the jokes get.
It is not good or safe to point the mockery behind the grand seignior's back.
It's all part of the cultural demand that fat people have to be jolly about being the object of mockery.
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