Ridicule is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RIDICULE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make fun of
• subject to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour
• To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
• subject to laughter or ridicule
• laugh at, make fun of
NOUN:
• the subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour
• treatment of a person or thing as ridiculous
• An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
• 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.
• Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
• language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
• the act of deriding or treating with contempt
ADJECTIVE:
• Ridiculous.

Words related to RIDICULE

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Words that contain RIDICULE

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How to use RIDICULE in a sentence

• In a civilized country when ridicule fails to kill a movement it begins to command respect.
• I know that you ridicule the idea of their consulting their personal safety.
• He must brave the ridicule of the profane to taste the raptures which his soul loved.
• It may be that the Peables blood was worthy of receiving honor as great as the ridicule it did receive.
• Our constant changes of habit were the subject of ridicule at home and abroad, even at an early period.
• This great, elemental brute of the North who had first attempted to ignore, and later to ridicule and to bully her.
• One of his next acts was to hold up to ridicule, in a comedy, the medical faculty.
• This extraordinary kitchen scene did not escape the ridicule of the wits of that merry age.
• At all events I know for certain that he was disgraced by his superiors, and held up to ridicule by his brother officers.
• Dryden, in revenge for the ridicule thrown on him in this piece, exposed the duke under the name of Zimri in his Absalom and Achitophel.
• That little was forthcoming in a touch of ridicule more potent than all arguments.
• His vanity was very great and he had felt hurt at the ridicule which Pocahontas had caused to fall upon him.
• The right of parliaments, the memory of the late king, and even the act limiting the succession of the house of Hanover, became the subjects of ridicule.
• Another cause of offence may have been derived from his proclamations, which were offensive to good taste, and which justly exposed him to ridicule.
• His frontier life in a log cabin was also the subject of ridicule at the opening of the campaign.
• I have reported sermons many a time, simply to ridicule them, but never had the least idea what true religion meant till I heard Mr.
• Our country and our gallant fleet have been held up to ridicule throughout the whole English Press.
• Rowe, which might perhaps draw some ridicule upon him.
• It cannot be thought surprising that the new Tracts were received with surprise, dismay, ridicule, and indignation.
• A Man who boasts of the Goods of Fortune, a gay Dress or a new Title, is generally the Mark of Ridicule.
• In the face of all this censure and ridicule, the two sisters continued in the discharge of a duty to which they increasingly felt they were called from on high.
• Whenever it pleased her, she turned affairs of the greatest importance into ridicule, as if they were taking place upon the stage of the theatre.
• But, d’Artagnan was not of a character to allow a man to escape him thus who had the insolence to ridicule him.
• Nothing could be further from my mind in recording these stories, than the idea of casting ridicule upon such an order of men.
• Atholl convinced Anne of his own innocence, and Queensberry fell under ridicule and suspicion, lost his office of Commissioner, and was superseded by Tweeddale.
• Strive as he would within his soul to ridicule, the pictures seemed somehow almost to shout at him with hidden meaning.
• That he intended to ridicule his own lines is very uncertain, when there are no means of knowing which of the two plays was written first.

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