Mockery has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | We've become a mockery to the whole village. | |
| 2. | I overheard their mockery. | |
| 3. | As a result, he gets something which technically is correct, but in its essence is just a mockery. | |
| 4. | This is a mockery of justice. | |
| 5. | Mockery is the food of fools. | |
| 6. | Humanity cannot be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. | |
| 7. | The farm was bought by a wealthy salesman who had once served as the object of laughter and mockery when he was offered beer in a stocking. | |
| 8. | Manzoni notes that when news of the sickness reached the city “anyone might suppose that there would be a general stir of disquiet, a clamor for precautions of some kind [whatever their real value] to be taken ... But one of the few points about which all the memoirs of the time agree is that there was nothing of the kind ... Anyone who mentioned the danger of the pestilence, whether in the streets, the shops or in private houses — anyone who even mentioned the word ‘plague’ — was greeted with incredulous mockery or angry contempt.” | |
| 9. | Human rights groups have rejected the vote as a mockery. |