mockery

• The most buoyant of optimists has moments of self-mockery, and the hardiest believer in ideal truth moods in which poetry seems the phantom and prose the fact. —  Robert Browning
• Oh, the horrors of slavery When she penned those lines, Sarah little imagined how great a mockery was the title, “kind master,” she gave her brother. —  The Grimke Sisters
• The intimate sunny grin he kept for his friends was inviting her to share his self-mockery, and she found it irresistible. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
• Despite Obama's tone of self-mockery, the passage discloses the milieu in which he immersed himself.
• What a mockery was the watchword of liberty and equality, if they were obliged to submit to a despotism which they knew to be, in the highest degree, oppressive and tyrannical Sidenote: Sufferings of the People Hence the real and physical evils which the people of France endured, had no small effect in producing the revolution. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges

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