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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ridicule .
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Examples
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The most I've ever been ridiculed is about this economy thing.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The most I've ever been ridiculed is about this economy thing.
Living On One Income 2006
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Charlie Chaplin ridiculed him in a movie making him look like a stupid, awkward little dork.
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The “stereotype” society ridiculed is true:: women CAN corrupt men by how they dress.
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Le Roux, speaking in Afrikaans, ridiculed the idea that South Africa could ever be a white man's country.
file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt Ray Esther 1969
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Obama, in short, ridiculed the very idea that we should see Chavez as a threatening figure, and threw in a bit of mockery of the reporters, to boot.
blueollie 2009
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A former NFL player once ridiculed "potential" as "a French word meaning 'you haven't done a damn thing yet."'
News Archive 2009
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"frozen music," a term ridiculed by Madame de Staël.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896
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Carlin ridiculed our watering-down of sexual descriptions and ethnic categories, not to mention our mourning clichés, all of which he believed were the real-life manifestations of George Orwell’s “Newspeak,” utilized to obscure reality, numb the mind, and discourage criticism.
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I have drawn the conclusion, or at least the hypothesis, that Protestantism, at its very roots, is mythophobic: Luther threw some of the most imaginative books out of the Bible; Calvin ridiculed the Catholic Church because so many hoax relics were floating around; Evangelical leaders attack the Church for the Stations of the Cross, which add imaginative elements to the Lord’s Passion; myth is generally held in suspicion.
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