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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ridicule.

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Examples

  • The most I've ever been ridiculed is about this economy thing.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The most I've ever been ridiculed is about this economy thing.

    Living On One Income 2006

  • Charlie Chaplin ridiculed him in a movie making him look like a stupid, awkward little dork.

    Sound Politics: "The Brink of Madness" 2006

  • The “stereotype” society ridiculed is true:: women CAN corrupt men by how they dress.

    Blogging on empty « BuzzMachine 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • A former NFL player once ridiculed "potential" as "a French word meaning 'you haven't done a damn thing yet."'

    News Archive 2009

  • "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

  • 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.

    Marty Beckerman On George Carlin | Disinformation 2008

  • 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.

    How I Became a Sci Fi Catholic, Part 3 2007

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