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n. Words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter at or feelings toward a person or thing: "I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon” ( Dorothy Parker).

v. To expose to ridicule; make fun of.

v. to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of

n. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour

adj. ridiculous

n. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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.

n. Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

v. To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.

adj. Ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

n. Mocking or jesting words intended to excite laughter, with more or less contempt, at the expense of the person or thing of whom they are spoken or written; also, action or gesture designed to produce the same effect.

n. An object of mockery or contemptuous jesting.

n. Ridiculousness.

n. Synonyms Derision, mockery, gibe, jeer, sneer. See satire, ludicrous, and banter, verb

To treat with ridicule; treat with contemptuous merriment; represent as deserving of contemptuous mirth; mock; make sport or game of; deride.

Synonyms Deride, Mock, etc. (see taunt), jeer at, scoff at, scout; rally, make fun of, lampoon. See the noun.

To bring ridicule upon a person or thing; make some one or something ridiculous; cause contemptuous laughter.

n. A corruption of reticule, formerly common.

n. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt

v. subject to laughter or ridicule

"And all the ridicule is a stick for human spaceflight opponents to bash NASA over the head with."

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ridiculed    ridicules    ridiculing   

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ridiculous    derision    ridiculosity    deride   

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