Sekirov Dictionary

ridicule

/ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/

noun 4
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 7

noun4

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Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
- Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone. — 1738
•
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
- [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. — 1857
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
•
(historical) A small woman's handbag; a reticule.
- I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule. — 1825

adjective1

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(no longer used) ridiculous
- late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.

verb1

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To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

forms

ridiculed · ridiculing · ridicules · ridiculeth · ridiculest · more ridicule · most ridicule

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