Thesaurus: ridicule

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1. n. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
4. v. t. To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
5. a. Ridiculous.
6. n. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
7. n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt
8. v. subject to laughter or ridicule
9. To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridiculetoward or respecting.I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. Goldsmith.
10. n:33/v:67 n. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate v. subject to laughter or ridicule