Definition of ridicule

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

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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.
Scoff :: Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach..
Mouth :: Mouth (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt..
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat..
Pointingstock :: Pointingstock (n.) An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.
Burlesque :: Burlesque (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything..
Ridicule :: Ridicule (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
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.
Laughingstock :: Laughingstock (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
Irony :: Irony (n.) A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words..
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.
Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Bemock :: Bemock (v. t.) To mock; to ridicule.
Guy :: Guy (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
Ridiculer :: Ridiculer (n.) One who ridicules.
Pantagruelism :: Pantagruelism (n.) The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
#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..
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