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اسم: کسی یا کسی چیز کا مذاق اڑانے، طنز کرنے، یا مذاق اڑانے کا ایک فعل یا مثال، اکثر طعنہ یا حقارت کے ساتھ ان کی نقل یا نقل کرکے۔ کوئی چیز مضحکہ خیز یا احمقانہ دکھائی دیتی ہے۔ دھوکہ دہی یا تقلید۔
اسم: طنز، طنز، یا طعنہ جس کا اظہار الفاظ، اشاروں یا عمل کے ذریعے کیا گیا ہے۔ کمرہ۔
1. The screen of his laptop stares back at him, the cursor arrow pointing at the end of a solitary paragraph, as if in mockery.
2. What he did smile away was not chivalry but a degrading mockery of it.
3. I saw how Aphrodite had twisted her magic and made a mockery of it.
4. But still he had felt different from and superior to the others always he had watched them with some mockery, some mocking disdain, with the same disdain which a Samana constantly feels for the people of the world.
5. When Kamaswami was ailing, when he was annoyed, when he felt insulted, when he was vexed by his worries as a merchant, Siddhartha had always watched it with mockery.
6. Just slowly and imperceptibly, as the harvest seasons and rainy seasons passed by, his mockery had become more tired, his superiority had become more quiet.
7. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words.
8. He swept off his sombrero and bowed to them in nice mockery, and then he wheeled his horse again and dashed away.
9. He paused his stories only to drink, then settled into his tales and mockery once more.
10. His figured panoply of death looked more like a disguise assumed in mockery than a fierce annunciation of a desire to carry destruction in his footsteps.