"mockery about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to describe a situation in which something is being talked about or addressed in a mocking or contemptuous manner. For example: "The group laughed at the speaker's mockery about the latest policy change."
But at least, in seeking to replace credulity, or mockery, about alternative medicine with scientific method, Vancouver's institute has taken a big step forward.
There was quite a bit of international mockery about our supposedly all-encompassing "sex by surprise" laws after the rape accusations against Julian Assange.
Even that early picture had the lick of mockery about it – here is the daft northern factory girl, about to blow her fortune.
To a citizen of the present, AirPods might resemble hearing aids, and Twitter mockery about how easily these might be lost was immediate.
Besides much mockery about Hollande the Handyman, opinion polls the next day showed that most of the French were unmoved.The Cahuzac scandal may not be the only one to sap the president's authority.
It is the convention for male presenters to laugh off mockery about their looks and pretend not to care, but Chiles brings it up several times, and very obviously does.
Mr. Gore balanced somber public policy pronouncements -- Iraq, the economy, Trent Lott -- with self-mockery about his Supreme Court-determined defeat in 2000.
In the wake of various Oscars So White debates, there was plenty of back-patting on the subject of diversity last night, along with self-mockery about the back-patting, and then back to the back-patting.
Knowing how tough it can be for an amateur to break into the film business, Ms. Balducci Chapin, who works part-time as a bookkeeper and events coordinator at a small Manhattan public relations firm, likes to quip in self-mockery about her latest endeavor.
At lunch this week at le Cirque, Danner had an air of self-mockery about directors like Brett Haley trusting her to carry a movie.
This works especially well for injecting an ironic tone into your writing if you're writing with subtle-mockery about how much you love your boss's wardrobe, and link in a picture of the boss from Office Space, we'll get the picture loud and clear.
