Mockery used in a sentence

Mockery in a sentence as a noun

As xkcd points out, this kinda makes a mockery of the pole vault.

"Friday" became viral mostly as a mockery, but she seemed to take it all in stride and make the most of it.

The sometimes ruthless mockery of code isn't confined to code written by females.

It's fascinating that the situation is such a mockery of the rule of law, yet it keeps on rolling.

There was widespread mockery of people earning 500k who regarded themselves as just making ends meet.

I'm all for altcoins, but this is just making a mockery of what we're all trying so hard to turn into a respectable enterprise.

It's not a lost limb from an accident, something random that could happen to anyone and deserves pity instead of mockery.

We can challenge them, call them out, ask them questions, demand an apology for their being rude or offensive, yes, but we change people's thinking by gentle persuasion, not by public mockery or lynch mobs.

I hope my comment is taken in the spirit in which it is intended, which is one of gleeful mockery and not gloating; unfortunately, the dumber HN acts, the dumber I end up looking for being here.

Perhaps start with the Boston Tea Party, which, while not a literal lynch mob, did in fact irreparably burn a politician with hot tar, and then cover him in feathers as a sort of public mockery.

One, cdata is going to pursue a strategy of nitpickery, mockery, and isolation to dis-empower dissatisfied victims of his company's software, under the guise of smoothing ruffled feathers.

Just as the police are not allowed to demand DNA samples from entire populations in order to solve a crime, security services should not be allowed to store our every move and thought in the name of defending liberty, it makes a mockery of the concepts they claim to be protecting, and is extremely dangerous in the long term.

It reminds me of an anecdote from Steven Levy's "In the Plex" on a sneaker wearing gnome that was inexplicably making a mockery of Froogle results:> But one problem was so glaring that the team wasnt comfortable releasing Froogle: when the query running shoes was typed in, the top result was a garden gnome sculpture that happened to be wearing sneakers.

"While I do not deny the unsavory side of Stallman exists, I am intrigued at how smoothly we've moved from his detractors mocking his "The Right to Read" [1], to his detractors ignoring it, to us standing on the precipice of living in it, even as the mockery continues unabated and even the HN zeitgeist seems to be that he's some sort of whacko who should be ignored... some sort of whacko who, I might add, appears to have been a great deal more correct about the future than the people labeling him such.