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What does mockery mean?

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Noun
  1. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
  2. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
  3. (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
  4. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
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Clearly, their behavior in the past eight years blatantly contradicts these principles and makes a mockery of their promises.
What has happened makes a mockery of what this Committee is considering today.
If insulted, he retaliated swiftly and turned mockery against its instigator.
Indeed, to suggest otherwise is to make a mockery of true individual liberty.
The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity.
If he was a fool, what were those his folly whipped into orgies of vicious mockery?

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