Sentences with ridicule
rid·i·cule
R r - I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back. [VERB noun]
- As a heavy child, she became the object of ridicule from classmates.
- Ridicule implies a making fun of someone or something but does not necessarily connote malice or hostility [he ridiculed her new hairdo]; deride suggests scorn or malicious contempt in ridiculing [to deride another's beliefs]; mock implies a contemptuous ridiculing, esp. by caricaturing another's peculiarities [it is cruel to mock his lisp]; taunt1 implies insulting ridicule, esp. by jeering and repeatedly calling attention to some humiliating fact [they taunted him about his failure]