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Definition of ridicule

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Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.

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Ridiculer :: Ridiculer (n.) One who ridicules.

Libelous :: Libelous (a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet..

Ridiculous :: Ridiculous (a.) Involving or expressing ridicule.

Derision :: Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule..

Spalpeen :: Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.

Ridicle :: Ridicle (n.) Ridicule.

Laughingstock :: Laughingstock (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.

Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.

Lampoon :: Lampoon (v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.

Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

Ridiculize :: Ridiculize (v. t.) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.

Pantagruelism :: Pantagruelism (n.) The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.

Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

Mouth :: Mouth (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt..

But :: But (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company..

Pock-pudding :: Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

Laugh :: Laugh (v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Affix :: Affix (v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one..

Run :: Run (v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

Methodist :: Methodist (n.) A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in contempt or ridicule.