Both Uses
ridicule
in
The Overcoat, by Gogol
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- You must know that Akakiy Akakievitch's cloak served as an object of ridicule to the officials: they even refused it the noble name of cloak, and called it a cape.†
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- The news of the robbery of the cloak touched many; although there were some officials present who never lost an opportunity, even such a one as the present, of ridiculing Akakiy Akakievitch.†
ridiculing = mocking (making fun of)
Definitions:
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(1)
(ridicule) mock (make fun of); or the language or behavior that does so
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)