Ridicule
Definitions
Equivalents
37 more languages
Azərbaycan dilirişxənd
Беларускаявысме́йваць
Българскиосмивам
فارسیمسخره کردن
Gàidhligmagadh
עבריתקלס
Հայերենծաղր
Kurdîbeka
Latinaderidiculum
Te Reo Māorianiani
Македонскиисмејува
မြန်မာသရော်
Nederlandsbespotten
Portuguêsridicularizar
Examples
“Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.”
“When he was young you'd not find⟳ him doing well in school, His mind⟳ would turn⟳ unto the waters. Always the focus⟳ of adolescent ridicule, He has no time for farmer's daughters. Alienated from the clique society, A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.”
“[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.”
“To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.”
“to see⟳ the ridicule of this monstrous practice”
“More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw⟳ how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.”
“[…] while paying her own⟳ compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend⟳ to the good old lady’s replies, she saw⟳ her with a sort⟳ of anxious parade of mystery fold⟳ up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss⟳ Fairfax, and return⟳ it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]”
“I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.”
““Tills be blowed!” said Mr. Claypole; “there’s more things besides tills to be emptied.” “What do you mean⟳?” asked his companion. “Pockets, women’s ridicules, houses, mailcoaches, banks,” said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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