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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Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Pointingstock :: Pointingstock (n.) An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.
Lording :: Lording (n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule..
Pachydermatous :: Pachydermatous (a.) Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.
Ridicule :: 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.
Deride :: Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
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..
Guy :: Guy (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
Pock-pudding :: Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
Burlesque :: Burlesque (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything..
Mouth :: Mouth (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt..
Libel :: Libel (v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon..
Ridiculous :: Ridiculous (a.) Involving or expressing ridicule.
Scoff :: Scoff (n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Ridiculer :: Ridiculer (n.) One who ridicules.
Libel :: Libel (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law..
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
Laugh :: Laugh (v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
Levite :: Levite (n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.
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