Both Uses of
ridicule
in
Pygmalion
- They've took it out of me often enough with their ridicule when they had the chance; and now I mean to get a bit of my own back.†
Act 2 *
- Poor Clara, who appeared to Higgins and his mother as a disagreeable and ridiculous person, and to her own mother as in some inexplicable way a social failure, had never seen herself in either light; for, though to some extent ridiculed and mimicked in West Kensington like everybody else there, she was accepted as a rational and normal—or shall we say inevitable?†
Act 5
Definition:
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(ridicule) mock (make fun of); or the language or behavior that does so