All 8 Uses
ridicule
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Cat's Eye
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- I can remember drawing such mustaches myself, and the spite that went into them, the desire to ridicule, to deflate, and the feeling of power.†
p. 20.8 *
- You can't sit with your legs spread apart, or jump too high or hang upside-down, without ridicule.†
p. 83.8
- This is the only answer I can give, to anything, that will not be ridiculed or questioned.†
p. 202.8ridiculed = mocked (made fun of)
- I look at it and feel resentment, because this stupid-looking hat is mine, and deserving of ridicule.†
p. 207.5
- Stephen writes me letters, in pencil, on pages torn from lined workbooks, in which he ridicules everything he can get his hands on, including his fellow camp instructors and the girls they go drooling around after on their days off.†
p. 243.4ridicules = mocks (makes fun of)
- We ridicule their piety, their small economies, the size of their feet, their rubber plant, which sums them up.†
p. 253.5
- Others have been discriminated against at work, passed over or ignored; or their art has been ridiculed, dismissed as too feminine.†
p. 374.7ridiculed = mocked (made fun of)
- I once thought he would ridicule me, if he found out about Josef.†
p. 406.3
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)