Sentence examples for ridicule from high-quality English sources.

• RIDICULE, n.

• He is perhaps uniquely placed to recognize the power of such ridicule.

• ., than thus descend the staircase at the Tuileries driven away by ridicule.

• Oliver Bennett examines the thin line between worthy philanthropy and worldwide ridicule

• How patriotic is it to badmouth and ridicule our great nation in front of Russia, America's greatest enemy?"

• Once touted as a tool that would "break the industry," it's since been hampered by confusion, ridicule, and delays.

• It's apparently to keep doing interviews, which results in more head-shaking headlines and national ridicule," the board wrote.

• The government blames them for contributing to smog, despite much public ridicule that points to dirty factories as being far more to blame.

Use ridicule in a sentence.

• “He does ridicule very well, and ridicule is one of the weapons that we need to use against softheadedness,” Dawkins told me.

• The revelations were followed by two days of uproar, international ridicule and attacks by the Canadian opposition who called him a hypocrite and demanded he resign.

• Every time Goop suggests a new outlandish technique (famously, using vaginal eggs to improve pelvic floor), the internet erupts with fact-checks, complaints, ridicule — and more visitors to Goop's website.

• “The idea encountered much resistance and some ridicule back then,” said David Grinspoon, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who has championed the idea for more than 30 years.

• She had never rejoiced at the sound before, nor ever before entered the passage, nor walked up the stairs, with any wish of giving pleasure, but in conferring obligation, or of deriving it, except in subsequent ridicule.

• But Labour alleged the announcement was “a desperate PR exercise”, as Boris Johnson faced anger and ridicule for failing to visit flood-hit areas, which he had done – albeit after several days – when floods struck during the general election campaign.

• After 300 years of almost universal ridicule, culteranismo was rediscovered by early 20th-century avant-garde poets in Spain as a fruitful method of poetic expression, and Góngora himself was reevaluated by modern critics as one of Spain’s greatest poets.

• 6.3.46 Deceptions for comedy or entertainment purposes involving those in the public eye will not normally require consent prior to broadcast unless the material was secretly recorded or is likely to result in unjustified public ridicule or personal distress.

ridicule sentence examples

• While he is in favor of a good-humored ridicule, he also thinks there is a vicious kind of ridicule that does not serve the purposes of truth—although it is not always clear what principled distinction he draws between the two (Müller 2013 and Chavez 2008).

• Mr Trump has meanwhile found himself the victim of online ridicule after saying that the kidney “has a very special place in the heart” after signing an executive order directing his administration to develop policies addressing kidney-related health issues among Americans.

• The US President had to clarify his vague comments made at a rally on Saturday expressing fear and concern about “what’s happening last night in Sweden” after they were met with confusion and ridicule by Swedes who confirmed no terror attack of any description had taken place.

• Satire, artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform.