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Sentence Examples Our campaign was conducted without resorting to smear, ridicule or the exploitation of the current political situation. Sheriff William Holligan said Reilly was an object of ridicule and his treatment by officers was unprofessional. In this day and age it is hard to believe that people can be held up to hatred, ridicule and contempt by a light-hearted gossip paragraph. This type was held up to ridicule and made a coward as well as a rodomont, as in the circumstances was only natural. While one might want to ridicule a particular expression of curiosity, he would be careful of dismissing curiosity root and branch. She said that while overall she enjoys her job, she still runs across people who like to grumble or to ridicule her. For doing this they were hounded by ridicule and persecution out from among their former associates. Watch out for scorn, sarcasm, ridicule and contempt and inappropriate humour. But in their defence, the butts of their jokes are generally treated more with affection than ridicule. The 34-year-old editor's public ridicule of the state's most senior judges has set the scene for an epic courtroom showdown on 22 July. King Mswati III of Swaziland was forced to revoke an edict making it an offence to ridicule the royals by baring buttocks. I had hoped we had moved beyond the use of ethnic characteristics as ways to ridicule people. I have learnt never to underestimate the worth of young people, nor to ridicule or belittle them. Groups of toughs would observe and point out the best actions, or ridicule the softies who couldn't cope. For a while, I shaved my bikini line along with my legs and armpits, mostly to stave off ridicule during junior high gym class and swimming. For all groups to be subject to open criticism, including mockery and ridicule, has been a great leveller. Debate the guy, denounce him, subject him to ridicule and mockery at every opportunity. She would guide me through the difficult parts and ridicule my silly mistakes. The new chair decided to ridicule past documents drawn up which unfortunately contained typos. About half, including me by the time I had slept on it, thought it was just the right level of blistering ridicule. Show More Sentences The law would be rightly open to ridicule, for transactions such as these are unexceptionable. Sooner or later it boomerangs and, like a bad joke, comes back to haunt and ridicule you. The resort to ridicule and name-calling betrays an angry wish that this problem would simply go away. Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing. By the fifteenth century the practice of uroscopy was falling into disrepute and the uroscopy flask became a symbol of ridicule. If I bring a veggie burger to eat instead of the steak they're serving, they ridicule me. In most cases, a cold dose of healthy public ridicule would quench the more volcanic vituperators and reason would be restored. It is tempting to ridicule these creationists, dismissing them as hayseeds and not giving them a second thought. We should point out that Rosenberger is by no means insensitive to the responsibilities of those dishing out satire and ridicule. Are the opposing sides so far apart that they can't even find the illogical arguments worthy of ridicule amongst their opposition's remarks? If all of us punish the new usage with ridicule and opprobrium, maybe we can reverse this loss to language. But we have the right, or even the duty, to greet many ideas with opprobrium and ridicule. His sometimes droll remarks might annoy some readers, but to me they seem a very effective way of delivering not just censure but also ridicule. She deserves and should expect nothing but ridicule for this newest cheap trick. But it seems rather churlish to criticise a president for lacking vision and then to ridicule him when he tries to be visionary. If you wanted to parody this sort of music, you would come up with the exact same thing you were attempting to ridicule. What gain is there in silencing another, through ridicule, for example, or the clever use of debating skills, if it is at the cost of truth? But far, far worse than that, we were the objects of ridicule of our peers and close family members. Most mistakes do no more than make us look ridiculous, yet ridicule from our peers can rank among our greatest fears. In science, as in so many fields, peer pressure and ridicule are tough to bear. Show More Sentences Forgive me for being facetious in these desperately serious times, but sometimes ridicule is the only release from anger. The ladies trained their beaks on her, like pale, ill-natured birds, and returned to scanning the crowd for safe subjects of ridicule. He chased a number of them into the sanctity of their own yards, but from these coigns they continued to ridicule him. No one can write a book aspiring to immortality, for it would then court both ridicule and certain mortality. His eldest and most honored son had disgraced the ancient family name, exposing it to ridicule. Hawke persisted in it, despite a high level of incredulity, bordering on ridicule, in the media. His ungainly, inelegant posture can leave him exposed against nimbler opponents, and he easily attracts ridicule. Paul writes a letter of ironic rebuke, using corrective language and ridicule, much like a parent finding a child in a compromising situation. At the risk of being thought even more ingenuous or, indeed, of exposing myself to ridicule, let me present another idea. Grammar, style, and content can become subject to criticism or even ridicule. His performance quickly became the subject of ridicule in media post-mortems of the event. It would have been repressed by ridicule as a deliration of the human mind. The tone is deprecatory throughout, and 30 cartoons, many of which are full page, reinforce the ridicule and derision. So I didn't ridicule or deride contributions, and published most emails critical of me, my style, and my substance. One might account for this by supposing that such items were de trop, subjecting their wearer to ridicule. Of course guys from an oil company are going to ridicule that, as they already have. May I never laugh at their mistakes, or resort to ridicule when they displease me. Be assured that my responses will in no way seek to diminish or ridicule contributors. While he has lost none of his charisma, the years of ridicule appear to have worn him down. Who wants to be exposed to public ridicule and contempt as part of their job description? Show More Sentences Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery. Such action requires a certain courage, a readiness to face ridicule and danger. No diplomat anywhere is likely to turn the other cheek if his president is held up to ridicule in a public forum. For a long time golfers were held up to ridicule for their attempts at fashion. Take a politician, any politician, add a little humour, some venom, some wit, a good lashing of ridicule and then throw it at your audience. Aware of the potential for ridicule, or for having their sanity questioned, protesters are naturally reticent about discussing these experiences. Beaten and bruised, he patiently endures the ridicule and scorn heaped upon him. A person who snores is often an object of ridicule and causes sleepless nights for others. Therefore, if Rousseau were interested in spiritualism, during his lifetime it need not have made him an object of ridicule. If it had happened in some third world country, it would have been the object of ridicule from the press here. In this, Jane Austen's last completed work, satire and ridicule take a milder form, and the tone is more grave and tender. Others are bullied, either because they are isolated from their peers or because a sick or disabled parent is an easy object of ridicule. There is a fine line sometimes between a joke, satire, ridicule and genuine defamatory ridicule. No government likes to have ridicule heaped upon it although this administration seems to mind it less than others. Individuals suffering panic attacks often go to great lengths to hide their symptoms because they fear ridicule. But the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance said the demand would bring ridicule on the Government. Instead the media and the powers that be heaped scorn and ridicule upon him. Rather, it invites ridicule, contempt and cynicism towards the whole devolution project. That hasn't prevented him becoming the object of ridicule among his peers or the victim of inane questioning about his lifestyle. Punishment is administered not by burning at the stake but by ridicule and contempt in the media. Show More Sentences And don't forget how the Eiffel Tower was greeted with ridicule before becoming the great attraction it so surely is. The law of libel in England is based on whether the plaintiff has suffered hatred, ridicule or contempt. How do you in practice decide whether some ridicule is reasonable and some ridicule is unreasonable? His best friend becomes bitter that he can no longer ridicule him. But, to much ridicule, the Army then took weeks to prepare the field in Albania from which the Apaches were to operate. She is the subject of ridicule, innuendo, and ostracism by her peers. Throughout her life, she faced public ridicule, legal persecution and, eventually, redemption through a PhD in clinical sexology. No such charity can be granted to anyone involved in the movie, especially given its casual ridicule of blacks, gays, Asians, Russians and, in a novel twist, Samoans. Hovering in the twilight zone between satire and ridicule, this medley is both entertaining and an opportunity for a cathartic laugh at troubling issues. After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions. Fortunately, I avoided ridicule at the office, having left with a feeling of slight nausea but safe in the knowledge that I am actually much braver than I thought. Her denials may have worked technically but laid her open to ridicule. He knows battle only through schoolbooks and soldiers' stories, and fears the possible ridicule of his peers, should he be deemed a coward by running from battle. After he went public, steed was the target of ridicule and gossip and even received hate mail. While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment. For his Olympic-level faux pas, his fellow conservatives across the pond peeped rebuke and ridicule on Romney. I have endeavoured to show that Shakespeare cooperated with this derision of forced love-sighs, writing certain of his sonnets in ridicule of their windy suspiration. Such a patently absurd claim deserves to be heaped with ridicule. To face a life of ridicule after having your story published in the paper, and on the internet, linked to by as many cruel and nasty people as possible. He tried to ridicule his adversary by broadly expatiating upon his clothing and appearance which, it seems, did not meet with the standard set by London outfitters. Show More Sentences There the fool enjoyed special license to ridicule pretense and turn upside down social rituals and solemnities, including the dignity of the king himself. Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-colored hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went. Producing affective switch points between two simultaneous registers of sympathy and ridicule, minstrel performances catalyze confrontations within social relations. In kind, if I proclaim on a street corner that a certain Japanese beetle in my back garden is the new Messiah, you are also within your rights to ridicule me as a fruitcake. Today, to express a vision of a vigorous, spacefaring civilization, opening up the vast wealth of the solar system, is to invite ridicule and disbelieving laughter. Though it's easy to ridicule the performance element of these orations, they do act as a focus for the party and from time to time they find a kind of immortality. This makes Cannadine something of an outsider, and The undivided Past has been the subject of denunciations and ridicule. Satire finally came to the fore in American political life, unleashing a tsunami of politically-charged ridicule and invective that has changed the republic forever. Over time, because of its popularity among young girls, it became the object of ridicule. There is no attempt to desacralize or hold the classics up to ridicule. If we aren't interested in changing the way the country works, but only in chasing after an ebbing political tide, then we will earn nothing but ridicule. With a swan on top of a crown and Manchester United colours, it drew some ridicule from official heraldists. Your gothness is then measured by your peers with a 'gothier-than-thou' approach, facing ridicule if you are falling short. He attracted a certain amount of local criticism and ridicule at the time then interest waned. Russell often feared the ridicule of his maternal grandmother, one of the campaigners for education of women. His parsimony, for example, may have opened him to ridicule, but his biographers observe that parsimony is preferable to extravagance. The memoir cost him several friends and exposed him to much public ridicule. Although he received a large amount of slander and ridicule during his forty years at the head of revival, he never gave up his positions. He requested that Williams not publish the story until after his death, for fear of ridicule. And all are fearful of ridicule or, worse, antagonizing voters back home. Show More Sentences Like many other female rituals, however, the period of upsitting and lying in was vulnerable to ridicule and suspicion. If gentleman Jim doesn't regret exposing himself to widespread ridicule, he should. Her pea-brain and her shocking inability to answer even the simplest question would have resulted in even more ridicule. Given those odds, the ridicule to which the vice presidency often is subjected is as undeserved as it is long-running. They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. After all, if Colin Farrell can ham it up as Alexander the Great, then no historical figure is safe from getting basted on the spitroast of ridicule. But when he entered the halls of Congress and tried the same spectacularisms upon some of the thoughtful statesmen of the time he met with ridicule. Decades before Robert Venturi and Leon Krier exposed to public ridicule the pretensions of unexamined Modernism, Rowe began its systematic debagging. I am not ready to ridicule the claim of the Yogi adepts, that they are able to project some kind of astral body, and to communicate with one another from distant places. But third persons, merely for the purpose of laying a wager, shall not thus wontly expose others to ridicule, and libel them under the form of an action. Pinter's blunt political statements, and the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, elicited strong criticism and even, at times, provoked ridicule and personal attacks. In a household where the father was verbally abusive to the mother, the client constructed an image of love that incorporated yelling, swearing, belittlement, and ridicule. From a very young age, males are taught that it is inappropriate to cry, and these lessons are often accompanied by a great deal of ridicule when the lessons aren't followed. Soon Numan had picked up a fiercely loyal fan militia called the Numanoids, who followed him with the obsessive tenacity that only sustained ridicule can foster. For example, you ridicule your boss in an e-mail to colleagues and, an ohnosecond after clicking Send, you realize the boss was one of those in the address list. Attacks on heresy also appear throughout his hagiographies, and Arianism is taken to be the common face of heresy across Europe, exposed to great ridicule. The Crime Studio manages to subvert genre fiction without descending into sniggling postmodern ridicule, which may be the last brave thing left in contemporary literature. Hemans herself was able to balance both roles without much public ridicule, but left hints of discontent through the themes of feminine death in her writing. Bennet hints loudly that she fully expects Jane and Bingley to become engaged and the younger Bennet sisters otherwise expose the family to ridicule. Examples from Classical Literature I forewarn you that I become incensed when I am made a subject of ridicule. But I shall defer considering this subject at large, till I come to my treatise of oscitation, laughter, and ridicule. Thirdly, that they are never set forth as the objects of ridicule, but detestation. If ridicule, as Shaftesbury says, be the test of truth, Joseph Hume stood the test well. Probably in ridicule of the remarkable showers which used to find their way into the papers during the silly season. The cruel heroine of his heart must ridicule and humiliate him as much as possible. If a man sneers and ridicules, we are not to retaliate with ridicule and sneers. His political jingles were the delight or vexation of partisans as they happened to ridicule or scarify this side or that. The sculpin and the sea vegetables may be compared to comic valentines, which expose the recipient to ridicule. The licenser's keenness in scenting a political allusion oftentimes, indeed, entailed upon him much and richly-merited ridicule. He had then, the defects of lisping and stammering which we, often turned into ridicule. In what passages does her desire to taunt and ridicule Sir Peter predominate? Joseph Glanvil is dead, and will not mind unbelief and misbelief and ridicule. These pert, bird-like ways formed her shield against ridicule and misprision. This powerful fear of ridicule conquered, or suppressed, all other feelings. They attacked his pretension with flouting and battered his pomposity with ridicule. To such a mind, ridicule is a venomed dart, piercing and poisoning, and pride but inflames the wound. His companions laughed merrily, and burst out into a scurrile song in ridicule of St. Trochu. A woman's onest was not ruined by secret vice, but by the exposure of it, which brought ridicule and shame. I think a modern in an antique dress, as just an object of ridicule, as a Hercules or Marius with a periwig and chapeau bras. Show More Sentences I think a modern in an antique dress as just an object of ridicule as a Hercules or Marius with a periwig and a chapeau bras. At the same time, they have their use, where they do not create their ridicule. The Dubliners are beginning to publicly ridicule their Nationalist members. In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him. She gave a light laugh that had in it so little mirth, was so little apposite to ridicule, that he did not feel it a fleer. No part of my insanity was ever held in such ridicule as this. Her voice was velvety, but Bellton caught its undernote of ridicule. Let ridicule be abashed before the majesty of such characters! In 1788 a ballad in an almanac brought the custom into popular ridicule. He poured out rivers of ridicule upon them, and forced the big mass meeting to laugh and applaud. Americans are never slow to ridicule the denationalization of New York. Gone were the days of sarcastic ridicule, of visionary politics. A demand so sudden and so serious made the young man hesitate a moment, for ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. Dolores turned around with a smirk of biting ridicule on her face. Mr. douce says this is intended as a ridicule upon heraldry. The critics, therefore, are in error who censure these licenses of speech, and hold the author up to ridicule. Observing that this statement provoked no ridicule, he expanded. Young men are so governed by fashion, and so afraid of ridicule. Poor Bell, instead of being applauded, was pelted with a hailstorm of ridicule. One sudsy hand supported and suppressed her smile of ridicule. Show More Sentences Prince Andrew gaily bore with his father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him with evident pleasure. Incensed at their ridicule, Oswald longs to chastise them, but moves away. Would they bear the ridicule of the other boys of their own age? What is it that renders ridicule more insupportable than vituperation? It was because I felt this that Dirk Stroeve was not to me, as to others, merely an object of ridicule. Mary laughed his sentiment to ridicule and his poetics to scorn. The world is quick to turn and rend with ridicule a false prophet. Jennings from the probability of wishing to throw ridicule on his age. The vast majority of people who ridicule the notion that Shakspere was not Shakespeare, and that the Earl of Oxford was, have never examined the facts. Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him. She put the question with such a fine bold humor that, with a laugh, a little silly doubtless, to match her own, I gave way for the time to the apprehension of ridicule. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ridicule? Words that rhyme with ridicule What is the past tense of ridicule? What is the plural of ridicule? What is the adverb for ridicule? What is the adjective for ridicule? What is the noun for ridicule? Translations for ridicule Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ridgy ridging Ridgeway ridge tillage ridge's ridges ridiculed ridicules ridiculing ridiculous ridiculously ridiculousness 8-letter Words Starting With r ri rid ridi ridic ridicu ridicul