Portuguese
zombaria Act of insulting or making light, often using caricature.
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Ain't nobody better. Those words were said in an almost mocking tone.
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More often than not the police car moves on, to mocking laughter.
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Again the mocking growl which had so disturbed me in the corridor.
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The tone was more mocking than fierce; but Felicia shrank under it.
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She accused my book of mocking everything from domestic abuse to PTSD.
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So far, though, it's mainly drawn alarm and ridicule on social media.
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Then did the attendant on the tower speak of her in ridicule.
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The grotesqueness of such adornment found frequent ridicule in prose and verse.
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The laugh was turned on him; there was ceaseless ridicule and taunting.
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Boccaccio had made them the subject of ridicule in his popular stories.
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Not long ago, Cockell's claims would have been greeted with scientific derision.
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Five sessions to undo five years of war! Radke snorted in derision.
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Something I forgot along the way, he said, not hiding his self-derision.
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There was something outrageous in the open derision of the last words.
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Then she laughed in derision and called out loudly to the guards:
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Apple rejected the app, citing rules against making fun of public figures.
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It was non-scripted, non-focused, I have no problem making fun of myself.
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Allegedly likes making fun of Adele's weight on his daily morning show.
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I was never further from making fun of things in my life.
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She rather suspected that Mr. Harrison was making fun of the project.
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Six years later, it's still fun to make fun of Google Glass.
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You can always make fun of yourself in just about any situation.
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Payne grinned, relishing the opportunity to make fun of his best friend.
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You constantly make fun of me, don't think I don't know it.
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My men used to make fun of Eddie because of his car.
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Though affectionate mockery is nothing new, the golden age was relatively recently.
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It seems such a mockery; but if she wishes it; and Arthur-
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Thirty-two percent thought he would make a mockery of the political process.
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I could sense it the same way I'd felt its mockery earlier.
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But perhaps Falcao should be the subject of sympathy rather than mockery.
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Makes an absolute mockery of all the real stories of domestic violence.
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The horse-chestnut tree in the yard is not a mockery to her.
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The only way to talk about this is with heaps of self-mockery.
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The unseen singer never knew the mockery of the song she sang.
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However, he did the natural thing: he replied with bluster and mockery.
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And the absence of any personal hatred made this mockery more hideous.
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Democracy exists in name, but systemic inequality makes a mockery of it.
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The doctrine is often referred to among us in terms of mockery.
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Again came the mockery of news to call him to fresh enquiries.
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The helm was a mockery, and the boat running for the reefs.
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The smile turned down with a little gentle mockery in its lines.
