Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who ridicules.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who ridicules.

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  • noun One who ridicules.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

Etymologies

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ridicule +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Within this, to ridicule the existence of a greater mystery says more about the narrow-mindedness of the ridiculer than it does about the intelligence of the ridiculed.

    The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended 2010

  • Within this, to ridicule the existence of a greater mystery says more about the narrow-mindedness of the ridiculer than it does about the intelligence of the ridiculed.

    Josh Schrei: The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended 2010

  • I occasionally feel the need to be an equal opportunities ridiculer.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Garry 2006

  • I occasionally feel the need to be an equal opportunities ridiculer.

    The Weekend Starts Here Garry 2006

  • Now, Cousin, say I, is your time come; and you will be no longer, I hope, an infidel either to the power or excellence of the sex you have pretended hitherto so much as undervalue; nor a ridiculer or scoffer at an institution which all sober people reverence, and all rakes, sooner or later, are brought to reverence, or to wish they had.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I rather think the author wishes to be taken by Gray's admirers for a ridiculer of Johnson, and by the tatter's for a censurer of Gray. '

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • "You a ridiculer of superstitions?" said Danville, turning quickly on him.

    After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Two and a Half Men, this privileged child of the media's sprawling entertainment Empire has now become its most gifted ridiculer.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Report Abuse He that is correcting the ridiculer is taking to himself dishonor, and he that is giving a reproof to someone wicked, a defect in him.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Who came off looking worse, the ridiculer or the ridiculed?

    Self Help Daily 2009

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