to ridicule
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4.6
- verb
- /ˈrɪdɪˌkjuːl/
- Offensive
- She felt hurt when her friends ridiculed her idea during the meeting.
- ridiculed the idea
- ridiculed men
- ridiculed in jokes
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Watch on YouTubeHe he was ridiculed and laughed at.
- He he was ridiculed and laughed at.
- And so Cam was really just getting ridiculed in practice, right bad.
- Do you A ridicule them, B, shame them.
- He was a great man who sadly in his lifetime was ridiculed for his weather forecasting.
- That would be his legacy, but now he was attacked, mocked, ridiculed, and ignored.
- The Ash Wednesday thing should be heckled and ridiculed just like we're doing now.
- So they reject it and they ridicule it.
- The role of the mother in the family is ridiculed.
- It is so easy to ridicule MAGA.
- So you or someone else can challenge my beliefs or question them or someone can even ridicule them.
- He killed himself when people use social media to, to basically, you know, sort of ridicule him or something of that type.
- And yet if he were here today, he might be called a woke leftist or, you know, ridiculed or rejected.
Examples
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At the same time, the democratic opposition in Poland is using humour to ridicule the government's proceedings.
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Do you know what it's like to be ridiculed, to have your ideas thrown back in your face?
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Why does he ridicule you all the time?
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So people are are ridiculing this idea.
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Any other time, he would have been the first to ridicule the sentimentality.
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You ridiculed Jennifer in front of everyone.
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So when I decided to leave surgery and get into public health, a lot of my peers ridiculed me, questioned me.
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They ridicule our culture 'cause they don't understand the wisdom behind it.
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People started ridiculing him.
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He was a great man who sadly in his lifetime was ridiculed for his weather forecasting.
Synonyms
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2.0
To make fun of someone in a mean way to show they are silly
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2.3
Laugh at someone or say things that make them feel embarrassed
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5.8
To mock someone again and again to make them angry or upset
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6.5
To say or do things to show you do not respect someone
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5.0
To make someone or something seem not important
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7.8
To say bad things about someone without a good reason to make them seem less important
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7.7
To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect
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5.5
To make fun of someone in a joking way, often in public
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3.9
To make jokes about someone to make them look silly
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3.4
To make jokes about someone, sometimes to be playful and sometimes to be unkind
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6.7
To treat something as silly and show no respect
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7.8
To make fun of someone in a cruel way
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6.2
To laugh at someone and shout rude words to show you do not respect them
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7.2
To make fun of people or ideas to show their faults, often by using exaggeration
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9.3
To criticize someone publicly to make them feel ashamed
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7.7
To publicly make fun of a person or group by copying their style
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3.8
To tease someone in a friendly, joking way
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8.1
To make quick, unfair critical remarks about someone or their ideas
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8.0
Laugh at someone or treat something serious as a joke
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8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
To make fun of someone in a cruel way
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
Antonyms
How Mocking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ridicule comes from the Latin ridere 'to laugh', and you can see the same root in ridiculous. So to ridicule someone is to 'laugh at' them or make fun of them in a mean way.