noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
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By being slow to drop the rates, the banks make a mockery of the Government's policy.
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Excluding the Balts would make a mockery of expansion.
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They have always been unseemly, since they make a mockery of the moral values they purport to uphold.
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The losing Pittsburgh Steelers for making a mockery of their underdog status.
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But Labourpoliticians and women's groups accused him of making a mockery of the Government's efforts to tackle domestic violence.
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She had betrayed both him and me, and made a mockery of her feelings; of the entire tragedy itself.
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The Western world is making a mockery of us.
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Large jury awards are making a mockery of the justice system, we are told.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An embargo without enforcement would be a mockery .
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Kline's mockery of Palin's stuttering in the movie was offensive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because his mockery or contempt on top of everything else would devastate her.
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But his eyes still held the old mockery and the remembered cynicism.
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He had made a mockery of justice.
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I went to college once and engaged in my share of spoofs and mockery .
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Once again it did not honour its commitments, he says, thereby making a mockery of the Good Friday agreement.
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She glanced up, met those extraordinary eyes, and saw from the mockery in them that she'd been right.
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Take the aquatic bear for which Darwin suffered such mockery .
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There was no harshness or mockery in the sound now.