mockery

From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek μωκός (mōkós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (makr, “scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock +‎ -ery.

mockery (countable and uncountable, plural mockeries)

The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

We often use make a mockery of someone or something, meaning to mock them. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

action of mocking; ridicule, derision

Arabic: اِسْتِهْزَاء m (istihzāʔ)
Hijazi Arabic: تريقة f (taryaga)
Armenian: ծաղր (hy) (caġr)
Azerbaijani: rişxənd
Bulgarian: подигравка (bg) f (podigravka), насмешка (bg) f (nasmeška), присмех (bg) m (prismeh)
Czech: výsměch (cs) m, zesměšnění n, posměch m
Esperanto: mokado
Finnish: iva (fi)
Galician: burla f, moca f, escarnio (gl) m, chufa f
German: Verspottung (de) f, Verhöhnung (de) f
Greek: χλευασμός (el) m (chlevasmós)
Ancient: λάσθη f (lásthē), κατάγελως m (katágelōs), μῶκος m (môkos)
Hungarian: csúfolás (hu), gúnyolás (hu)
Italian: derisione (it) f, scherno (it) m
Latin: dērīsiō f
Old English: bismer n
Old Norse: háð, háðsemi
Persian: استهزا (fa) (estehzâ)
Plautdietsch: Spott m, Spettarie f
Polish: kpina (pl) f, szydera (pl) f
Portuguese: escárnio (pt) m, zombaria (pt) f
Romanian: derâdere (ro) f, batjocură (ro) f, bășcălie (ro) f
Sanskrit: निद् (sa) f (nid)
Spanish: mote (es) m, mofa (es), pitorreo (es), ludibrio (es) (formal)
Tagalog: uyam
Welsh: gwatwar (cy)

something to inspire ridicule

imitation, a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum