Mōck'er-y, n.

n. [Fr. moquerie.]

1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.
2. Sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things; derision; ridicule.

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. 3. Subject of laughter; sport. “The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery.” 2 Macc. viii. 17. 4. Vain imitation or effort; counterfeit appearance; false show. It is as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. Pope.