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Meanings of hollow mockery in English

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Usage of hollow mockery in English
1
You will like me better after seeing the hollow mockery of social compliments.
Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
2
What a thin, hollow mockery it would seem, backed only by their own word!
The Submarine Boys on Duty / Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat
3
If it falls in its mission it is a hollow mockery; a thing beneath contempt.
Branded
4
She could not mouthe the hollow mockery of such sophistries in the presence of Death.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
5
Randy felt that at this moment any assumption of gladness would be a hollow mockery.
The Trumpeter Swan
6
The family circle would degenerate into a hollow mockery if consideration each for the other was absent.
Laugh and Live
7
Was it all such a hollow mockery?
The Calling of Dan Matthews
8
W. was able to see what a hollow mockery was that power which he supposed himself to possess.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
9
And although now his possession was a hollow mockery, he would never give her up-notto Walter Monohan.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
10
There was no answer except the echo, and it rolled up out of the chasm with strange, hollow mockery.
The Last of the Plainsmen
11
Without this initial reform the individualism of your Ibsens and Auberon Herberts becomes a mere simulacrum, a hollow mockery.
Without Prejudice
12
It is a hollow mockery!
Remarks
13
But with heavy hearts we see that this would now seem like a hollow mockery of something solemn and immemorial.
Germany, The Next Republic?
14
We must find a way, find the first step of a way to freedom, or life is a hollow mockery.
One Man's Initiation—1917
15
It looked incredibly naked, a hollow mockery of the portentous dome it had stood for in the eyes of the world.
Secret Bread
16
His course struck me as so appropriate that I felt it would be hollow mockery to argue the point with him.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
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