mockery (n.)
- absurdity
- abuse
- affront
- apery
- aspersion
- atrocity
- bagatelle
- banter
- bauble
- bean
- bit
- brickbat
- burlesque
- butt
- button
- byword
- caricature
- casuistry
- cent
- contempt
- contumely
- curio
- cut
- derision
- despite
- disappointment
- disdain
- disingenuousness
- disparagement
- dump
- dupe
- emptiness
- enormity
- farce
- farthing
- feather
- fig
- flippancy
- folderol
- fool
- fooling
- frippery
- game
- gaud
- gewgaw
- gibe
- gimcrack
- goat
- grinning
- hair
- halfpenny
- hissing
- hollowness
- hooting
- humiliation
- imitation
- impersonation
- indignity
- injury
- insincerity
- insult
- jeer
- jeering
- jest
- jester
- jesuitry
- joke
- kickshaw
- knickknack
- knickknackery
- lampoon
- laugh
- laughingstock
- levity
- mimicry
- miscarriage
- mock
- molehill
- monkey
- offense
- outrage
- parody
- pasquinade
- pastiche
- peppercorn
- pin
- pinprick
- put-down
- ragging
- raillery
- rallying
- rap
- razzing
- ridicule
- roasting
- rush
- satire
- scoff
- scoffing
- scorn
- scurrility
- semblance
- sham
- shit
- smartness
- snap
- snorting
- sophistry
- sou
- spoof
- sport
- squib
- stock
- straw
- takeoff
- target
- taunt
- taunting
- toy
- travesty
- trifle
- trinket
- triviality
- tuppence
- twopence
- victim
A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
A mockery king of snow.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Where bastard Freedom waves
The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
