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• I can't believe I got teased and ridiculed for my musical tastes again. Why me?From the entry why me
• The case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule.From the entry before
• Where's your object of ridicule now?From the entry object
• My family says it, friends say it, colleagues agree and social media is quick to ridicule.2023, Roy MacGregor, Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories, Toronto, Ont.: Random House Canada, →ISBN…. From the entry old man yelling at clouds
• Trans people either lived in the wrong gender, lived 'stealth', or faced ridicule.2017 June 1, Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both, Two Roads, →ISBN. From the entry stealth
• Being doxxed or ridiculed, for example, outweighs the offline risks of wasted time, poor health, or arrest.2013, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous, unnumbered page. From the entry doxx
• Newspapers tend to discredit veganism through ridicule, or as being difficult or impossible to maintain in practice.2011 March, Matthew Cole, Karen Morgan, “Vegaphobia: derogatory discourses of veganism and the reproduction of speciesism in UK national…. From the entry vegaphobia
• In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.1998, Vidyut Bhagwat, “Pandita Ramabai’s Strī-Dharma Nīti and Tarabai Shinde’s Strī-Puruṣ Tulanā: The Inner Unity of the Texts”, in Anne…. From the entry bite
• It is better that these demands be carefully sidetracked than met head-on with ridicule.1969, Martin Raymond Bender, An Introduction to Organized Labor in Television, page 28. From the entry blue-sky
• A left-handed child would be held up to ridicule, and the hand tied to prevent its use.1922, Edmund J. Sullivan, chapter 8, in Line: An Art Study, London: Chapman & Hall, page 88. From the entry cack-handed
• Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.1908, Rupert Sargent Holland, Builders of United Italy, page 175. From the entry aper
• Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule.2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN. From the entry bill
• These terms have long been commonly used to dominate, humiliate, ridicule, exclude and demean Dalits in everyday life.2024 November 8, Mitra Pariyar, “Dahal’s casteist slurs”, in The Kathmandu Post. From the entry casteist
• Online vendors started hawking "super straight" apparel to further ridicule the LGBTQ pride movement by mimicking pride merchandise.2021 March 14, Morgan Sung, “The 'super straight' campaign taking over TikTok is actually just ugly transphobic trolling”, in Mashable…. From the entry super straight
• As with the Vote Leavers and Fargists of 21st-century Britain, naysayers and critics of the misadventure were ignored or ridiculed.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 58. From the entry Faragist
• The mighty god is completely ridiculed as a simple-minded brute.2020, Maria Kvilhuag, “Þórr in Hárbarðsljóð”, in The Seed of Yggdrasill, [Chilliwack, B.C.]: The Three Little Sisters, →ISBN, chapter 11…. From the entry Þórr
• All the ridicule about her being such a haute, snotty Bouvier too good to be an American icon?2018 February 21, Jessica Iredale, “Moschino RTW Fall 2018”, in Women’s Wear Daily. From the entry haute
• As ecomedia scholar John Parham has shown, environmentalists become subject to ridicule because of their perceived "lack of real world values".2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 49. From the entry ecomedia
• That was why they bearbaited him in the first place—they hoped for some uncivilized response they could further ridicule.2016, Grace Callaway, Mayhem in Mayfair Quartet. From the entry bearbait
• Sometimes she used to hide her face from his, embarrassed by her tears in front of his cynical ridicule.2016 April 7, Zoe Miller, Someone New, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry in floods
• The "ronds-de-cuir" are still ridiculed and detested.2013 March 11, Lara Marlowe, “Magic of living in Paris punctures pain of endless French bureaucracy”, in The Irish Times. From the entry rond-de-cuir
• But Republicans ridiculed that idea as fantasy and mischiefmaking.2007 February 6, Bruce Lambert, “Race for State Senate Seat Breaks Spending Record”, in New York Times. From the entry mischiefmaking
• Your gothness is then measured by your peers with a 'gothier-than-thou' approach, facing ridicule if you are falling short.2005, Dan Vice, Little Book of Goths. From the entry gothness
• The song is a cautionary tale, intended to help victims – help them, that is, by ridiculing them – into recovery.2003 May 23, Kelefah Sanneh, “Fashion Tip in Rap for Brooklyn Girls”, in New York Times. From the entry cameltoe
• Anyone who has met with an anoa ridicules this idea.1998, Jane Whitten, Tropical Wildlife of Southeast Asia, page 16. From the entry anoa
• He remembered their faces, red and idiotly merry with excited ridicule, so fiercely eager to lay indignity on someone else.1958, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, page 193. From the entry idiotly
• They ridiculed my striving for bigness, depth.1944, Emily Carr, “Art and the House”, in The House of Small. From the entry bigness
• Miss Brownell was very fond of ridiculing her pupils.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon. From the entry at the tail
• Those who rattle sabres, I think history has shown, have gained in the long run only hatred or ridicule, or both.1921, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. From the entry rattle sabres
• With all the ridicule, satire, hissing and rotten eggs showered upon long windedness, it still remains with us.1916 February 15, “Bodemann’s Aphorisms”, in Romaine Pierson, editor, The Practical Druggist and Pharmaceutical Review of Reviews, volume…. From the entry who would have thunk it
• The special writers whom Pope singled out for ridicule in this poem are forgotten, but this does not matter.1901, Vida Dutton Scudder, Introduction to the Study of English, Globe School Book Company, page 339. From the entry forgotten
• Parler was sometimes ridiculed as the “boomer 4chan,” a messy-but-accessible connecting piece between mainstream right-wing Facebook and the darker fringes of the internet.2021 January 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall”, in The Atlantic. From the entry alt-tech
• The Andromeda Initiative was initially rejected as a human-driven boondoggle by many asari investors, and the construction of the Leusinia was met with ridicule.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ark Leusinia Codex entry. From the entry public opinion
• He waved lamely and accepted questions from a group of people which the New York Daily News ridiculed as 'sycophants and psycho fans'.2014, Donald McRae, Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing, →ISBN. From the entry bearbaiting
• Children above five are ridiculed for any use of their mother's speech pattern, and by age five to seven, children use the patrilectal forms.2014, Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson, Monika Reif, Cognitive Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry patrilectal
• He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at…. From the entry antifeminist
• Any evidence on the contrary is automatically rejected without consideration, often ridiculed, and may lead to ostracism of the person presenting the un-PC data.2012, Beverly A. Potter, Mark James Estren, Question Authority; Think for Yourself, page 157. From the entry un-PC
• As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.2011, Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, page 67. From the entry queerize
• "Which most people get ridiculed for.2009, Esquire: The Magazine for Men - Volume 152, page 123. From the entry fruit up

Meaning of ridicule

1. verb To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
2. noun Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
3. noun An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.

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Questions about ridicule in a sentence

How do you use ridicule in a sentence?

Ridicule is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.”

What is a short sentence with ridicule?

“"Which most people get ridiculed for.”

What does ridicule mean?

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