mockery

noun

1. 1

   The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

2. 2

   Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

3. 3

   Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.

4. 4

   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.”