Ridicule

//ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl//

"Ridicule" in a Sentence (21 examples)

If you do that, you're going to subject yourself to ridicule.

It is not good to ridicule him in public.

It is mean of you to ridicule him in public.

He exposed himself to the ridicule of his classmates.

He is apt to ridicule others.

Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".

I sensed with discomfort that the two of them might ridicule me behind my back as a thoughtless, simple-minded satyr.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

The seventy disciples received the teaching of Confucius in the oral form, for words that satirize, criticize, praise, conceal, suppress, or ridicule cannot appear in writing.

It's a kinda ridicule unnecessary fibonacci-syllabic-heap.

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His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.

When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school, His mind would turn unto the waters. Always the focus of adolescent ridicule, He has no time for farmer's daughters. Alienated from the clique society, A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.

[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.

to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice

More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.

late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.

[…] while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady’s replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]

I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.

“Tills be blowed!” said Mr. Claypole; “there’s more things besides tills to be emptied.” “What do you mean?” asked his companion. “Pockets, women’s ridicules, houses, mailcoaches, banks,” said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter.

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