All 4 Uses of
ridicule
in
The Idiot
- And now it was too late—there he was, and got up, too, in a dress coat and white tie, and Nastasia in the very humour to heap ridicule on him and his family circle; of this last fact, he felt quite persuaded.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Evgenie Pavlovitch turns everything and everybody he can lay hold of to ridicule.†
Chpt 3.1
- And if I dared to turn your beautiful, admirable simplicity to ridicule, forgive me as you would a little child its mischief.†
Chpt 4.5
- For whole hours at a time she ridiculed and chaffed the wretched man, and made him almost a laughing-stock.†
Chpt 4.5ridiculed = mocked (made fun of)
Definition:
mock (make fun of); or the language or behavior that does so