The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. "It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery." "Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God." "And bear about the mockery of woe."
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