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ridicule Noun

— Ridicule is derision or mockery. Aristophanes shocked the Athenians with his ridicule of their sincerely-held beliefs.

ridicule Verb

— To ridicule is to make fun of, or mock, someone or something. To ridicule a powerful man is to take a big risk.

ridicule

— verb (= roast, poke fun) subject to laughter or ridicule The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday — noun language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate — noun (= derision) the act of deriding or treating with contempt

Synonyms ridicule synonyms

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ridicule English » English

mock mockery deride make fun of scorn derision laugh at sneer taunt tease jeer satirize joke laugh scoff sarcasm jeer at insult gibe criticize blame be sarcastic banter raillery irony speak sarcastically sneer at satire revile make fun jest hoot guy use sarcasm use insulting language scold satirise ridicule with sarcasm poke fun knock kid flout fleer disparage disgrace chaff be ironic teasing sneering slander

Topics ridicule topics

What do people use ridicule to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say

Criticize
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Mock
Social behavior Social activity

Humor

Conjugation ridicule conjugation

How do you conjugate ridicule?

ridicule · verb

Examples ridicule examples

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Simple sentences

If you do that, you're going to subject yourself to ridicule.
He exposed himself to the ridicule of his classmates.
It's a kinda ridicule unnecessary fibonacci-syllabic-heap.
These silly Westerners get all up in arms about Asians eating dogs, but ridicule those who criticize meat-eating in general.
Ridicule is the food of fools.

Movie subtitles

What's going on here is that you have all brought ridicule down onto the Latter-Day Saints.
You ridicule logic, but beauty and pleasure not founded on reason are mere bubbles.
It's actually an escapade intended to ridicule our volunteers.
We are aware that most of our colleagues ridicule our findings.
The subcommittee didn't believe us. At least they didn't ridicule us.
It was an awful mixture of ridicule and suffering.
It's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others.
Listen, you. Why do you have to ridicule his resolve?
I don't want to be here all summer and be an object of ridicule for the twins and all of you.
We ridicule each other.
You come in here asking favors..and then ridicule our courtesy..with your insolence!
He held him up to ridicule whenever possible.
If a samurai risks shame and ridicule to beg for a day or two's grace, he must surely have good reason.
C'est ridicule.
You dare hold your queen up to ridicule?
But there was no note of pity in your ridicule.
I ridicule on the night of the party.
Don't make me die of ridicule, before I die decapitated.
At least they didn't ridicule us.
They want to humiliate me! They want to ridicule me!
In it, he attempts to ridicule Your Majesty's most trusted ministers, and calls for their downfall.
Must Bavaria face ridicule just because his Majesty.
AFRAID TO HOPE, EXPECTING RIDICULE. A TENDER HEART HALF AFRAID TO LOVE.
Must you always hate? Must you always ridicule? Ridicule who?
He wanted to hold our love up to ridicule, but I couldn't let him do that, could I?
Probably whoever saves him from ridicule by recovering the jewels.
Now, you can sue for defamation of character. damage to his reputation and livelihood. holding him up to public ridicule and great mental anguish.
If you understood him, you wouldn't subject him to ridicule.
Since when have I subjected him to ridicule? Then why walk out on him?
Since when have I subjected him to ridicule?
It was only the 2 of us. Ridicule starts with a third person.
But as soon as I tried it, I dreaded beeing mocked, the ridicule and I retired into my shell.
I found him rather ridicule.
But your tone suggests ridicule.

News and current affairs

It is only too easy for them to point to the case of the cartoons and say: Now you see how western-style democracy and freedom of expression mean that you will face ridicule and mockery of your religious faith!
Second, the Labor party has proven politically bankrupt, with its only conceivable leader being the 82-year-old Shimon Peres and its anachronistic dovish optimism the source of much ridicule.
Just as the landed gentry ridiculed the new industrialists who sullied farmland with huge factories, so some industrialists ridicule today's knowledge workers, calling them hamburger flippers.
To be a devoted football or basketball player in the lowest series brings ridicule rather than fame.
Over the years, however, as the world economy continued to grow without interruption - and, in the current age of globalization, seemingly without limits - the dire predictions of the Club of Rome have become increasingly an object of ridicule.
Initially, his ambitious plans to make Malaysia an economic model for developing nations exposed him to both ridicule and admiration.
Today, Iran's enrichment program is going ahead despite the United Nations Security Council's warnings of new sanctions, while Iranian officials publicly ridicule threats of US military action.
Many free-market ideologues ridicule the idea that natural resource constraints will now cause a significant slowdown in global growth.
That is why the elites in general are so quick to ridicule this movement.
Many bankers also suffered direct losses as their banks collapsed, or as investigations exposed them to public ridicule, and even jail.
Zuma's turbulent personal life - many wives and his embarrassing contention during a rape trial that he avoided HIV infection by taking a shower - has invited ridicule.
And, with such a target, it is not very difficult to poke holes and pile on the ridicule.
Democracy promotion by the United States and the European Union generates ridicule when it extends only to elections producing winners found palatable, as Gaza's vote for Hamas in 2006 did not.
Then there was the Palestinian election of 2006: Promoting democracy generates ridicule when it extends only to elections that produce palatable winners, as Gaza's vote for Hamas did not.

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