n. 嘲弄；玩笑（jape 的变形）
acting like a clown or buffoon
同义词： buffoonery / clowning / frivolity / harlequinade / prank
The normalization of prison rape like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized.