Ridicule meaning in English
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Definition
to ridicule someone: to make fun of someone, to mock someone
The other children always ridiculed little Icarus. They mocked him all the time because he had very big feet.
ridiculous: absurd, farcical, laughable, silly
Examples
- "Let's start by going through some of the more ridiculous suggestions of the month."
- "Susie : It's funny, earlier in the helicopter, I thought... for a second, I thought you said... oh, never mind, it's so ridiculous."
- "Moira : I want you to be silent and think about how ridiculous your statement was."
- "Bruno : Danica, your testimony here today was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard in my life."
- "Philip : Well that seems highly improbable, even ridiculous."
- "I mean, that's just ridiculous."
- "This is ridiculous!"
- "Philip : Well, that seems highly improbable, even ridiculous."
- "Carlos : Ridiculous!"
- "Brent : That is completely ridiculous Enriqué."
- "You have got to change that ridiculous message."
- "I got in touch with several different business travel agencies, which ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous."
- "This is ridiculous."
- "Please allow me to respond to your question with a few questions of my own: why on earth are we wasting valuable work time by addressing such a completely ridiculous issue?"
- "Announcer : Are you tired of being ridiculed for being illiterate?"
- "No longer a small boy, frightened and ridiculed and picked on."
- "Everyone should be able to express their ideas freely, whenever they want, without being censored or ridiculed."
- "Jean : Madam, your accent is ridiculous."
- "Voice : No, those are just ridiculous stereotypes."
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