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Ridicule in a sentence

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Sentence count:120+7Posted:2017-03-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: deridejeerlaugh atmockscoffsneer attauntAntonym: respectSimilar words: ridiculousperpendicularoverridingacidicmodicummoleculeesculentdifficultMeaning: ['rɪdɪkjuːl]  n. 1. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate 2. the act of deriding or treating with contempt. v. subject to laughter or ridicule. 
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31 The only safe object of ridicule was Inspector Fowler.
32 Often they fear ridicule or a rebuttal.
33 Ridicule is the best test of truth. Lord Chesterfield 
34 Willie just cries out for ridicule, don't you think?
35 He criticized comedy because it was based on ridicule.
36 What Schott got for her words was ridicule.
37 Or, heaven forbid, ridicule him?
38 She became an object of ridicule.
39 Above all it held up to ridicule the idea that political decisions should be taken within a moral framework.
40 He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule.
41 If the cucullati could be depicted as objects of ridicule[sentencedict.com], other religious images could have suffered too.
42 A faintly comical figure, he fears ridicule above all else.
43 Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land.
44 Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward.
45 Sound-proofed and travelling at speed, we can enjoy every moment of it, without risking offence or ridicule.
46 His looks, his temperament, his background - even his name marked him off for ridicule.
47 The U. S. Postal Service has finally won the right to ridicule its competitors.
48 Ridicule,[sentencedict.com] imprisonment or even death may be used against those who will not fight the socially defined enemy.
49 Although he was subjected to ridicule by his colleagues, he remained firmly convinced.
50 Ridicule is a decidedly more entertaining version of the genre with the grace to flash us some intelligence and self-consciousness.
51 Cynics - who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed - may ridicule you.
52 Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobody listened to him.
53 Who knew, until this week, that you were a cartoon character of ridicule?
54 With even-handed ridicule, John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both.
55 She might be infuriated by the sewing-circle boredom; but she would hear no ridicule.
56 Her immigrant father with his thick mustache and accent and three-piece suit would only bring her more ridicule.
57 These playwrights claimed they could correct vice only by sentiment, not ridicule.
58 Sentimental dramatists insist that comedy should have a higher purpose than merely to ridicule the weaknesses of mankind.
59 Far from rendering them subject to ridicule, such a stress is one of the best ways to hold an audience and gain sympathy.
60 This is not the sort of ambition which you can advertise without attracting ridicule.
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