For his suggestions he has been much ridiculed.
Learning, indeed, was often ridiculed as pedantry in a gentleman of good family.
The metre is monotonous and easily ridiculed, but it suits the subject, and the poem is very popular.
Consoles that are not backwards capable get ridiculed.
His biting wit involved him in many controversies with well-known contemporaries, such as Lavater, whose science of physiognomy he ridiculed, and Voss, whose views on Greek pronunciation called forth a powerful satire, Ober die Pronunciation der Schopse des alten Griechenlandes (1782).