Ridiculing

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ridiculed};p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Ridiculing}.]
     To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule
     toward or respecting.
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           I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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     Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize;
          lampoon. See {Deride}.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "ridiculing":
     abusive, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, bitchy,
     blackening, blameful, booing, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling,
     catty, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous,
     contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative,
     deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
     derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disparaging,
     disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering,
     flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, impudent, insolent,
     invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental,
     kidding, leering, libelous, minimizing, mocking, objurgatory,
     panning, pejorative, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing,
     rallying, razzing, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, roasting,
     scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting,
     smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering,
     sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying,
     vituperative