Definition of ridicule

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Ridicule (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

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Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like..
Mouth :: Mouth (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt..
Levite :: Levite (n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.
Spalpeen :: Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.
Ridiculous :: Ridiculous (a.) Involving or expressing 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..
Derision :: Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule..
Scoff :: Scoff (n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
Ridiculer :: Ridiculer (n.) One who ridicules.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
Pock-pudding :: Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
#NAME? :: -ite () A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite..
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.
Burlesque :: Burlesque (v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language..
Scoff :: Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach..
But :: But (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company..
Mimicry :: Mimicry (n.) The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
Burlesque :: Burlesque (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything..
Lording :: Lording (n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule..
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
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