RIDICULE vs DERISION: NOUN
- The act of deriding or treating with contempt
- The act of using words, gestures, images, or other products of expression to evoke laughter or contemptuous feelings regarding a person or thing.
- The words or other products of expression used in this way.
- A corruption of reticule, formerly common.
- 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.
- An object of mockery or contemptuous jesting.
- Ridiculousness.
- Synonyms Derision, mockery, gibe, jeer, sneer. See satire, ludicrous, and banter, verb
- 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.
- Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
- Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
- Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
- An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
- The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
- Synonyms Ridicule, mockery, gibes, scoffing, taunts, insults.
- An object of derision or contempt; a laughing-stock.
- Act of treating with disdain.
- A state of being derided.
- The act of ridiculing or laughing at someone or something.
- Contemptuous laughter
- The act of deriding or treating with contempt
- The act of deriding; subjection to ridicule or mockery; contempt manifested by laughter; scorn.
RIDICULE vs DERISION: VERB
- To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
- Subject to laughter or ridicule
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RIDICULE vs DERISION: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To expose to ridicule; make fun of.
- To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
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RIDICULE vs DERISION: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Ridiculous.
- 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.
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RIDICULE vs DERISION: RELATED WORDS
- Laughable, Laughingstock, Deride, Caricature, Joke, Mockery, Scorn, Make fun, Jest at, Rib, Laugh at, Guy, Blackguard, Poke fun, Derision
- Opprobrium, Subsannation, Gagging, Disregard, Travesty, Satire, Irony, Insult, Defiance, Contempt, Sarcasm, Mockery, Disdain, Scorn, Ridicule
RIDICULE vs DERISION: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Satire, Mock, Laughable, Deride, Caricature, Joke, Mockery, Scorn, Make fun, Rib, Laugh at, Guy, Blackguard, Poke fun, Derision
- Incredulity, Indignation, Subsannation, Gagging, Disregard, Satire, Irony, Insult, Defiance, Contempt, Sarcasm, Mockery, Disdain, Scorn, Ridicule
RIDICULE vs DERISION: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Saints ridicule others for their reliance on revelation.
- But their ridicule was not isolated to Trump.
- Occupy movement as their enemy, and ridicule them.
- Kotlikoff worries about being held up for ridicule.
- Expose any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule.
- In general they are a subject of ridicule.
- It exposes by ridicule the danger of behaviour.
- Obsession to the point of ridiculous merits ridicule.
- Mad Libs, but with love instead of ridicule.
- Andrew Korner Gerard Baden-Clay My Comment Opinion LETTER: Ridicule at 'stoner sloth' drug message AUSTRALIAN politics has once again opened itself to world ridicule.
- House, this night, spoken of with contempt and derision.
- Examples of aggressive humor include teasing, ridicule, derision, disparagement.
- White audiences in derision at the expense of Blacks.
- Harry had shared with the others to much derision.
- It too was met with widespread and vitriolic derision.
- Mi Smith to the force of a court derision.
- She heard laughs of derision from the crew.
- They are nothing but noise, derision, treasonous lappers.
- Or just my normal look of haughty derision?
- This entitles you only to contempt and derision.
RIDICULE vs DERISION: QUESTIONS
- Did the director of the Cunnamulla scandal realise the likelihood of ridicule?
- Is the truth of our faith a matter of ridicule among the infidels?
- How many letters are in the crossword crossword clue hold up to ridicule?
- Quel est le ridicule d'un joueur ukrainien dans un tournoi professionnel?
- Why did Nathan continue to ridicule the experiences of the Prophet?
- What does being held up as an object of ridicule mean?
- What does a child learn when he lives with ridicule?
- When did Law&Order Special Victims Unit ridicule episode air?
- Which atheist groups use the strategy of public ridicule?
- Is there a solution to the expose to public derision crossword puzzle?
- What is the dictionary definition of the word derision?
- Why did Shri Mahidhar Shastri laugh in derision during the debate?
- What are some examples of derision and contempt in the Bible?