ridicule

Definition von ridicule im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of; derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour; looks or acts expressing amused contempt; {v} to expose to laughter, to banter; {n} laughter with contempt; 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; {i} mockery, derision, scorn; the act of deriding or treating with contempt; If you ridicule someone or ridicule their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way. I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back = mock; An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter; If someone or something is an object of ridicule or is held up to ridicule, someone makes fun of them in an unkind way. As a heavy child, she became the object of ridicule from classmates. unkind laughter or remarks that are intended to make someone or something seem stupid (ridiculum , from ridere ). to laugh at a person, idea etc and say that they are stupid; to make fun of; language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate 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; language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate; {f} scorn, mock, deride, tease; 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"; Ridiculous; To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting; Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; mockery; derision; ridicle; deride
ridiculed: past of ridicule
ridiculing: present participle of ridicule
ridiculing: In a manner intended to ridicule