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What is the noun for mockery?

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mockery
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “Why, it's an absolute shame that one of Shakespeare's plays should be thus turned into a mockery.”
      “This action makes a mockery of the government's plans.”
      “Why do the really dreadful singers set themselves up for scorn and mockery when they have to know that's what they're in for.”
mock
  1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
  2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
  3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “They have made a mock of humanity by the wanton destruction of men.”
      “It was a mock of the actual Source Hip-Hop Awards, the awards show we hosted each year that had become a staple in hip-hop.”
mocker
  1. A person who mocks.
  2. A mockingbird.
  3. (archaic) A deceiver; an impostor.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “And he allows himself to be mocked without taking revenge on the mocker.”
      “How could such a mocker take the most absurd aberration of the 20th century seriously?”
      “In order to stay ahead as a mocker these days, you must nail your subject for good.”
mocking
mockage
  1. (obsolete) mockery
mockings
mockeries
  1. plural of mockery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The plants were beautiful, organic masterpieces of life, but still the terrariums were poor mockeries of the verdant excesses outside.”
      “When they are alone, my Lady waves her hand to dispense with such mockeries.”
      “I will stand,' returned Mr Haredale impatiently, 'on this dismantled, beggared hearth, and not pollute it, fallen as it is, with mockeries.”
mocks
mockers
  1. a jinx
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The cynics and the mockers and the doubters can say what they like, but that's what these protests are about.”
      “Yet, our intrepid movie mockers come up with classic lines, time and time again.”
      “That's an interesting point, because he always said there were the mockers and the mourners, and he wanted people to be mourners, not mockers.”
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