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mockery

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The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.

Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.

Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. George Santayana

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. Milan Kundera

Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves. Thomas Moore

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt

Mockery is the flashing of slander. Chinese Proverb

Undeserved praise is mockery disguised. German Proverb

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