Synonym: deride, jeer, laugh at, mock, scoff, sneer at, taunt. Antonym: respect. Similar words: ridiculous, perpendicular, overriding, acidic, modicum, molecule, esculent, difficult. Meaning: ['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.
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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61 She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind.
62 She told him that he would cover himself with ridicule by bringing the boy back.
63 If he had said he was acting under his own authority, he would have laid himself open to ridicule.
64 We know that the parents of aggressive children use more ridicule, nagging and scolding than other parents.
65 The team reaps only ridicule or, on a good day, apathy.
66 Even when such claims evoked skepticism and ridicule, both the sick and the curious continued to come.
67 The ridicule and disparagement on talk radio confirms why an Ebonics program makes sense.
68 He hated being the object of public attention and ridicule like some fairground mountebank.
69 He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule,[http://sentencedict.com/ridicule.html] condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
70 It had not escaped Cecilia's notice that to many people, even today, old women are objects of ridicule.
71 We seem obsessed as a nation with school failure, with horror stories, with ridicule.
72 If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
73 At first, Lucien had watched them in awed fascination, hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule.
74 He has a child now and he wants her to grow up without facing ridicule because of his actions.
75 He felt so ashamed of his weakness, but George didn't ridicule him at all.
76 Gradually, the enterprise became the object of good-natured office ridicule.
77 However, the uniformed, sixteen-legged crocodile was an easy target for ridicule.
78 And, unlike a lot of recent period movies, Ridicule certainly has resonance in our time.
79 Given the numbers of the disadvantaged, critics of Treasury ridicule the whole proposal.
80 Schumacher fiddled energetically with his signet ring, and offered no further conversation beyond a snort of ridicule.
81 To ridicule with a pasquinade; satirize or lampoon.
82 He began by pouring ridicule on the whig leader.
83 Isn't ridicule one of the seven deadly sins?
84 It is shallow of you to ridicule abstract art.
85 They pelted him with ridicule and vilification.
86 Fashion: a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
87 To make a travesty of; parody or ridicule .
88 He had become inured to ridicule.
89 Silly mistakes and queer clothes often arouse ridicule.
90 He became the object of ridicule and scorn.
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