Both Uses of
ridicule
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Clifford have it in his power to make you rich?" cried the old gentlewoman, affected with a sense of something like ridicule at the idea.†
Chpt 15
- To incur the ridicule of the younger crowd, that knew him not,—the harsher scorn and indignation of a few old men, who might recall his once familiar features!†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
mock (make fun of); or the language or behavior that does so