Difference between Ridicule and Poke Fun

RIDICULE vs POKE FUN: 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.
Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
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.
Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
Synonyms Derision, mockery, gibe, jeer, sneer. See satire, ludicrous, and banter, verb

To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
Subject to laughter or ridicule

To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
To expose to ridicule; make fun of.

Ridiculous.
To bring ridicule upon a person or thing; make some one or something ridiculous; cause contemptuous laughter.
Synonyms Deride, Mock, etc. (see taunt), jeer at, scoff at, scout; rally, make fun of, lampoon. See the noun.
To treat with ridicule; treat with contemptuous merriment; represent as deserving of contemptuous mirth; mock; make sport or game of; deride.

Laughable, Laughingstock, Deride, Caricature, Joke, Mockery, Scorn, Make fun, Jest at, Rib, Laugh at, Guy, Blackguard, Poke fun, Derision

Satire, Mock, Laughable, Deride, Caricature, Joke, Mockery, Scorn, Make fun, Rib, Laugh at, Guy, Blackguard, Poke fun, Derision

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.
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