Ridicule

n.	1.	An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. - Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. - Foxe.
	2.	Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; - a term lighter than derision. We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, - the laughable, - and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings. - Hare. Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. - Pope.
	3.	Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. To see the ridicule of this practice. - Addison.
v. t.	1.	To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. [imp. & p. p. Ridiculed ;p. pr. & vb. n. Ridiculing.] I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. - Goldsmith.
a.	1.	Ridiculous. This action . . . became so ridicule. - Aubrey.

Noun	1.	ridicule - language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
	2.	ridicule - the act of deriding or treating with contempt Synonyms: derision
Verb	1.	ridicule - subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast

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