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Перевод: mockery

[существительное]
осмеяние; издевательство; глумление; насмешка ; пародия ; посмешище; бесплодная попытка

Тезаурус:

1. They have always been unseemly, since they make a mockery of the moral values they purport to uphold.
2. British officers watched what Spier called "a mockery of christianity", while the rest of the internees looked on with disgust from the members' box on the grandstand."
3. Face to face, the son who had wanted to model himself on his father now outraged him, showing him little respect, openly arguing with him, Under Vincent's voice, in his fixed, obstinate stare, he detected a lurking mockery and contempt for everything he stood for.
4. There was a part of his mind filled almost to sickness with self-mockery, a bitter mockery grown out of the fear that was back with him now, mockery for the excellence of his seamanship.
5. Many men wore cushions under their shirts or put on grass skirts and false breasts, whether in emulation or mockery of the gentler sex.
6. After all," she said with mockery in her voice, "you did say you'd give Una her dowry when she got married."
7. All thoughts of Seal Sands Lock were stashed away, safe from the mockery of people like Gazzer.
8. Reading Unamuno, I found this passage which gave me comfort among all the mockery: "The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule."
9. She recognized the mockery, but didn't care.
10. Berowne confesses to his love for Rosaline, with a good deal of witty, self mockery.
11. In return for the money received by Northern Ireland from the British taxpayer, the Unionists had turned the British flag into a party-political symbol and had made a mockery of the British tradition of social justice.
12. The gulls were wheeling and crying above the parapets of the ornate bridge and for one mad moment I thought that they, too, were engaged in an elaborate mockery.
13. She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery.