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Another word for ridicule

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Noun

  1. Words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter

    See also:

    respect

    laughter

Verb

  1. To make fun or make fun of

    Idioms:
    See also:

    respect

    laughter

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Another word for ridicule

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Synonym Study

  • Taunt implies insulting ridicule and often an attempt to provoke, esp. by jeering and repeatedly calling attention to some humiliating fact they taunted him about his failure
  • Mock implies contemptuous ridiculing, esp. by caricaturing another's peculiarities it is cruel to mock his lisp
  • Deride suggests scorn or malicious contempt in ridiculing to deride another's beliefs
  • Ridicule implies making fun of someone or something but does not necessarily connote malice or hostility he ridiculed her attempts to speak Greek
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Sentence Examples

  • His judgments had to wait the event before they were absolved from ridicule or delivered from neglect.

  • The ridicule that greeted the revelation of the Pop-gun Plot marked the beginning of a reaction that found a more serious expression in the trials of Thomas Hardy, John Home Tooke and John Theiwall (October and November 1794).

  • The new practice was received at first with contempt and even ridicule, and afterwards by Stoll and Peter Frank with only grudging approval.

  • But as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that Prince Andrew with one word, one argument, would upset all his teaching, and he shrank from beginning, afraid of exposing to possible ridicule what to him was precious and sacred.

  • She could ridicule him for the aspirations which he had not and for those which he had; on the other hand, he never heard from her a tender word "though she lived to be eighty."

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