Mockery in example sentence

Coming after the deaths of at least 30 people in Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, and other Islamic countries during protests against cartoons ridiculing Muhammad, the Irving verdict makes a mockery of the claim that in democratic countries, freedom of expression is a basic right.

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They cut out his tongue in mockery of his oratory, and no one knows what they did with his body.

I'm very confident we're going to learn to live more lightly on the planet, and I am extremely confident that what we're going to do with our new digital tools is going to be so profound and so beneficial that it's going to make a mockery out of everything that came before.

Aristophanes’ vicious and often obscene mockery held these leaders to account, testing their commitment to the city.

This may have influenced the panoramic vision of his work, and in the Tales, no level of society is above mockery.

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