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Meanings of ridicule in English
Usage of ridicule in English
1
So far, though, it's mainly drawn alarm and ridicule on social media.
2
Then did the attendant on the tower speak of her in ridicule.
3
The grotesqueness of such adornment found frequent ridicule in prose and verse.
4
The laugh was turned on him; there was ceaseless ridicule and taunting.
5
Boccaccio had made them the subject of ridicule in his popular stories.
6
I have encountered ridicule and obloquy; but I do not mind them.
7
The Abbé had incurred some ridicule by his readiness in proposing constitutions.
8
Of course this was pure cowardice; I was afraid of their ridicule.
9
I just beg of you; do not bring your family into ridicule.
10
Fortunately the League encountered some ridicule at the outset and prospered proportionately.
11
For once he felt no desire to ridicule Maggie and her colleagues.
12
Sometimes they met the children of defeated kings with jeers and ridicule.
13
And then he laughed in sheer ridicule of his own jaded senses.
14
His struggles were preposterous; his lively sense of ridicule speedily stopped them.
15
But nowadays a duel brings the parties nothing but reproach and ridicule.
16
The horror of ridicule is the black shadow that hangs over youth.
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Ridicule through the time
Ridicule across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common