ridicule
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈrɪdɪˌkjuːl/
- Offensive
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- I could never live through such public ridicule again.
- object of ridicule
- subject to ridicule
- public ridicule
But blended with the ladder notice will be a tinge of ridicule which spoils them.
- But blended with the ladder notice will be a tinge of ridicule which spoils them.
- And of course, it's taken me into realms of enormous ridicule and enormous abuse.
- And you're like, we deserve every bit of ridicule that we get.
- But we feared ridicule, and we did not sign the paper.
- What role does ridicule play in defending the public from these ideas?
- But when you are faced with the scale of ridicule that I went through, you've got a choice.
- And even when I first got here to Seattle and I was tweeting about staying in, the ridicule was huge.
- These were school children who witnessed first hand the statement of honesty can be met with ridicule.
- The people on the Internet that are like the, the, the ones that invite the least amount of ridicule.
- His mistakes and difficulties aroused the ridicule of the others and this excited him and made him worse.
- And there is a certain amount of ridicule which will be completely unwarranted that anyone must endure for it.
- We keep each other in line by ridicule and condemnation for the crime of being different or questioning the norm.
Examples
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The teacher encouraged us to speak up, even if it meant risking ridicule from our peers.
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And endured his ridicule with unfailing good nature.
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When I would come home from school crying after all the ridicule from the kids, she never told me she loved me.
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I could tell her what I thought about anything and not worry about ridicule or blame.
Fiction book (2001) -
But we feared ridicule, and we did not sign the paper.
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What role does ridicule play in defending the public from these ideas?
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I came in for a lot of ridicule and persecution because of my telling people.
Fiction book (1990) -
What leads one person to piety and prayer leads another person to ridicule, and so on and so on.
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Being a humanist all my life, I too had suffered the ridicule of friends.
Academic text (2011) -
It's only the most close-minded that greet them with ridicule.
Synonyms
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3.9
Teasing in a playful way that is not serious
66
4.9
Making fun of someone or something by copying them to make others laugh
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5.5
An act of making fun of someone to show dislike
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7.9
Laughing at or making fun of someone to show you do not respect them
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6.3
Saying things to make someone feel bad or angry
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8.4
Unfair criticism that makes someone or their work seem bad
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6.1
Rude words or loud laughter that show dislike
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4.5
Making fun of someone to show you do not respect them
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5.4
Making jokes about a person in front of others to tease them
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7.1
Making someone feel small or unimportant
A comment or action that makes someone feel unimportant
Antonyms
How Mocking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ridicule comes from the Latin ridere 'to laugh' and the older form ridiculus 'laughable'. A helpful way to remember it is that it meant 'something to laugh at', so ridicule as a noun is the act of making someone the object of mockery.