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Ridicule

noun

Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.

The act of deriding or treating with contempt. Synonym: derision.

verb

(past & past part. ridiculed;pres. part. ridiculing)

Subject to laughter or ridicule. Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast. "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"

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"Ridicule" Quotes from Famous Books

... that old sledge was not a game of chance! There was the broadest sort of a smile all over the faces of that sophisticated audience. The judge smiled with the rest. But Sturgis maintained a countenance whose earnestness was even severe. The opposite counsel tried to ridicule him out of his position, and did not succeed. The judge jested in a ponderous judicial way about the thing, but did not move him. The matter was becoming grave. The judge lost a little of his patience, and said the joke had gone far enough. Jim Sturgis said he knew of ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... his self-control; he spoke with a quietness which made Katharine rather anxious that he should explain himself, but at the same time she wished to annoy him, to waft him away from her on some light current of ridicule or satire, as she was wont to do with these intermittent young ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

... had juster cause for his wrath. Consequently it came to pass that he himself committed against himself all those outrages for which he was wont to chastise other people on the ground of impiety; and he likewise became subject to no little ridicule. For, if persons denied having spoken certain phrases, he, by asserting and taking oath that it had been said, wronged himself with greater show of reality. For this reason some suspected that he was bereft of his senses. Yet he was not generally ...

— Dio's Rome, Vol. 4 • Cassius Dio

... something solid in aid of the credit of the paper circulation; and much has been said of its utility and its elegance. I mean the project for coining into money the bells of the suppressed churches. This is their alchemy. There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... God chastiseth you for violating the five precepts, how hath he raised up the Franks who ridicule them? If he governeth the earth by the Koran, by what did he govern it before the days of the prophet, when it was covered with so many nations who drank wine, ate pork, and went not to Mecca, whom he nevertheless ...

— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney

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