Examples of ridicule in a Sentence
Noun
She didn't show anyone her artwork for fear of ridicule.
the early efforts by the suffragists to obtain voting rights for women were met with ridicule
Verb
The other kids ridiculed him for the way he dressed.
They ridiculed all of her suggestions.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
However, the recent release of her Netflix series With Love, Meghan has earned a chorus of ridicule including from some surprising quarters of the progressive American media.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
In this new dispensation where might makes right, any appeal to moral considerations in the practice of American foreign policy is ridiculed as a deficiency of the weak while the amoral exercise of power is venerated as a virtue of the strong.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025
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Noun
First children have also often been the subject of ridicule and bullying.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
However, the recent release of her Netflix series With Love, Meghan has earned a chorus of ridicule including from some surprising quarters of the progressive American media.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
Verb
He was often ridiculed by contemporaries, including renowned adherents of the Nation of Islam such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, as being too actively focused on integration and too passively focused on Black empowerment, critiques of the Black political establishment that persist today.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
In this new dispensation where might makes right, any appeal to moral considerations in the practice of American foreign policy is ridiculed as a deficiency of the weak while the amoral exercise of power is venerated as a virtue of the strong.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Ridicule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridicule. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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ridicule
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rid·i·cule
ˈrid-ə-ˌkyü(ə)l 
: the act of making fun of someone or something : derision
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