How to Use ridicule in a Sentence
- She didn't show anyone her artwork for fear of ridicule.
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Saying the wrong thing will bring anger, scorn and ridicule.
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Jonathan Edwards,
Washington Post,
12 Sep. 2023
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And the disdain for and ridicule of Utah from around the country lives on, too.
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Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
3 Nov. 2022
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The ridicule only grew louder when Gaetz pulled the same stunt in the next round and the result was the same.
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Jonathan Karl,
ABC News,
6 Oct. 2023
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But the live-in aspect of the code also received its share of ridicule.
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Anant Gupta,
Washington Post,
8 Feb. 2024
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Those in the latter group are easy targets for our ridicule.
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Danielle Lindemann,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2022
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The ad was met with ridicule by some media outlets in Ukraine.
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Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC News,
22 Apr. 2023
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The hapless humans in this movie are more than enough to soak up our ridicule.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2023
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DiCaprio has managed to stay above such ridicule, at least on a large scale.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2023
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Right now, she might be required to bear the burden of customer ridicule with grace.
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Amy Dickinson,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Sep. 2022
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Arizona hasn't always made the news as an object of ridicule.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
18 Nov. 2021
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The complaint was met with ridicule from other users on Twitter.
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Jon Brown,
Fox News,
10 Jan. 2022
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The student also carried a Bible with him at school, which was the source of much ridicule, according to the suit.
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Fox News,
2 Mar. 2022
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When Spears shaved her head at the peak of her career, she was met with ridicule rather than compassion.
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Jenna Ryu,
USA TODAY,
8 Apr. 2022
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Once again, based on the narrative being spun from the middle of the country, the league set itself up for ridicule.
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Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2022
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The effort caused an uproar and led to national ridicule.
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Michael Smolens Columnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Feb. 2022
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But the comments drew ridicule on social media and stories in news outlets all over the world.
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Eric Heisig,
cleveland,
14 Feb. 2022
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The story brought the family much ridicule and showed them in a new light, one that was very unpleasant for them.
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Adrienne Gaffney,
ELLE,
12 Nov. 2022
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Rohrwacher also likes to integrate constants that are dear to her in her films: that of waste and that of ridicule.
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Trinidad Barleycorn,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2023
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Mulvaney said she's been followed, faced public ridicule and has even been scared to leave her house.
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Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
5 July 2023
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No one with an Android phone was safe from ridicule when iPhone users were attempting to use the feature in a group chat.
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Jacob Siegal,
BGR,
22 Nov. 2021
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For centuries, obesity has been a focus of scorn and ridicule.
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Susan Dunne,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2023
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The film doesn’t shy away from the ridicule Barbie has received ever since she was introduced in 1959.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
17 July 2023
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To be sure, crass and hateful public figures are worthy of ridicule.
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WIRED,
28 July 2023
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Please don't get me wrong, this article is not in any way meant to ridicule or demean research such as this.
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Davey Winder,
Forbes,
8 June 2022
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To make Trump an object of ridicule then was edgy; to satirize him now is both obvious and not enough.
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Carolyn Kellogg,
BostonGlobe.com,
1 Dec. 2022
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The statue drew even more ridicule on public display outside the Capitol.
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Ronald G. Shafer,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 Jan. 2023
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Anderson and her then-husband, Tommy Lee, were the first celebrities to face such ridicule.
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Dana Feldman,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2023
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One novel might even appear in another as an object of ridicule.
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Maya Binyam,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2024
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The event swiftly became the subject of ridicule on social media after posts seized upon the differences between the images used in ads and photos of the event.
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Daniel Wu,
Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2024
- The other kids ridiculed him for the way he dressed.
- They ridiculed all of her suggestions.
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The author goes on to ridicule and scorn Leno for his comments.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
13 Nov. 2019
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Barkley has ridiculed Davis for being injury prone in the past.
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Chuck Schilken,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2023
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To be clear, this isn’t a place to ridicule, but rather gather and revere.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
30 Nov. 2023
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To ridicule this isn’t to deny that there are real threats.
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Gerard Baker,
WSJ,
24 Jan. 2022
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Willy and his boys ridicule Bernard for being a studious nerd.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Oct. 2022
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Fox News picked up the story in the US and both media outlets were ridiculed for it.
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Lila MacLellan,
Quartz at Work,
22 Oct. 2019
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It’s one thing to ridicule a state or to make claims against its residents.
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Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
23 Mar. 2021
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He was ridiculed for his appearance and laughed it off.
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Josh Peter,
USA TODAY,
12 May 2023
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Two message threads between the woman and her male cousin seemed to ridicule Bauer.
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Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Aug. 2021
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Oh, god, being ridiculed for stepping outside of the house.
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Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2023
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Jesus does not need to spend much time on those who openly ridicule God.
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Matthew Malec,
National Review,
27 Dec. 2023
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Re-signing Ward: Sometimes the best moves are the ones that are ridiculed on social media.
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Eric Branch,
SFChronicle.com,
24 Jan. 2020
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The Lebanese, no strangers to chaos, quickly found ways to ridicule their reality.
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Sarah Dadouch,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2023
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Like fans, and stuff like that, could portray him that way and just ridicule him in the media and stuff like that, social media.
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Mike Singer,
The Denver Post,
12 Dec. 2019
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The enormous, nearly life-sized painting was ridiculed by critics and the public.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2023
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The site shouted things the media told women to hide, and ridiculed the things the media told us were important.
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Erin Gloria Ryan,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2023
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None of this is to ridicule Putin’s account of Russian history.
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Tom McTague,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2022
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The episodes don’t judge or ridicule the people who become entangled in these schemes.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2023
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As a teenager in the ‘70s, I was sometimes perceived to be a gay man and pushed about or ridiculed accordingly.
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Mckenzie Wark,
Time,
24 June 2023
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Trump’s speeches, yet most of them could reject it, or even share it in order to deride or ridicule it.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan,
The New Republic,
5 Jan. 2021
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In response to a video of a few seconds of her dancing, Lizzo was condemned and ridiculed online.
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Jenny Singer,
Glamour,
9 Dec. 2019
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Trans people are constantly ridiculed or laughed at or stared at.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2023
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Neff posted to the thread, which racked up dozens of comments as users ridicule the woman, as recently as June 28.
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Oliver Darcy,
CNN,
10 July 2020
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Landry Shamet has long been ridiculed, criticized and slammed by many Phoenix Suns fans on social media.
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Jeremy Cluff,
The Arizona Republic,
7 May 2023
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What authority does this straight white man have to ridicule a woman's weight?
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Alicia Vrajlal,
refinery29.com,
22 Oct. 2021
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In 1920, an editorial in the New York Times sharply ridiculed Goddard's idea.
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Nadezhda Kosareva,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2024
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Or, heaven help us, the superhero film was somehow greenlit by a major studio with an even worse script than the one currently being ridiculed.
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James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2024
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And therefore, when they are exposed to humor, to ridiculing, that does hurt their pride, that does question their power, that does question their international standing.
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Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2024
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