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Definition
ridicule (to make fun of)
or:
something so inadequate it is ridiculous (silly)
or:
something so inadequate it is ridiculous (silly)
- On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.Chapter 2 -- The Market Place (9% in)
- She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.Chapter 6 -- Pearl (33% in)
- It was as if an evil spirit possessed the child, and had just then peeped forth in mockery.Chapter 6 -- Pearl (82% in)
- Now it was a herd of diabolic shapes, that grinned and mocked at the pale minister, and beckoned him away with them; now a group of shining angels, who flew upward heavily, as sorrow-laden, but grew more ethereal as they rose.Chapter 11 -- The Interior of a Heart (85% in)
- Was it but the mockery of penitence?Chapter 12 -- The Minister's Vigil (7% in)
- A mockery, indeed, but in which his soul trifled with itself!Chapter 12 -- The Minister's Vigil (7% in)
- A mockery at which angels blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced with jeering laughter!Chapter 12 -- The Minister's Vigil (7% in)
- "Dost thou mock me now?" said the minister.Chapter 12 -- The Minister's Vigil (86% in)
- Else, I should long ago have thrown off these garments of mock holiness, and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment-seat.Chapter 17 -- The Pastor and his Parishioner (29% in)
- How dreary looked the forest-track that led backward to the settlement, where Hester Prynne must take up again the burden of her ignominy and the minister the hollow mockery of his good name!Chapter 17 -- The Pastor and his Parishioner (69% in)
There are no more uses of "mockery" in The Scarlet Letter.
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