All 4 Uses of
ridicule
in
The House of Mirth
- The laugh was so strange that Lily coloured under it: she disliked being ridiculed, and her father seemed to see something ridiculous in the request.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved.†
Chpt 1.4
- Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.†
Chpt 1.9
- The thought of the ridicule struck deeper than any other sensation: Lily knew every turn of the allusive jargon which could flay its victims without the shedding of blood.†
Chpt 1.9
Definition:
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(ridicule) mock (make fun of); or the language or behavior that does so