ridicule
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/
ridicule (ridicules, present participle ridiculing; past and past participle ridiculed)
- (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
- French: ridiculiser, tourner en dérision
- German: verspotten
- Italian: ridicolizzare
- Portuguese: ridicularizar
- Russian: высме́ивать
- Spanish: burla
ridicule
- derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
- 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II
- Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.
- 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II
- An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
- [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.
- The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
- to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice
- See also Thesaurus:ridicule
- deride
- derision
- ridiculable
- ridiculous
- ridiculosity
- Italian: derisione
- Russian: насме́шка
ridicule
- (obsolete) ridiculous
- This action […] became so ridicule. — Aubrey.
ridicule (plural ridicules)
- (now, historical) A small woman's handbag; a reticule. [from 18th c.]
- c. 1825, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 455:
- I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
- ‘Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mailcoaches […] ,’ said Mr. Claypole.
- c. 1825, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 455:
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