RIDICULE in a Sentence
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175 example sentences for RIDICULE, such as:
1. They seem to draw down ridicule on us.
2. They seek to draw down ridicule on me.
3. They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
4. The fear of ridicule is a very effective sanction.
5. The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.
2. They seek to draw down ridicule on me.
3. They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
4. The fear of ridicule is a very effective sanction.
5. The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.
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Meanings and Examples of RIDICULE
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ridicule
n. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Classic Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1 'Will go on turning everything into ridicule,' broke in Pavel Petrovitch.
2 Prince Andrew gaily bore with his father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him with evident pleasure.
3 It would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, and helped him.
4 It seemed that in this company the insignificance of those people was so definitely accepted that the only possible attitude toward them was one of good humored ridicule.
5 Bezukhov est ridicule, but he is so kind and good-natured.
6 In spite of his absent-mindedness and good nature, Pierre's personality immediately checked any attempt to ridicule him to his face.
7 Anticipation that the failure of the Petersburg Berezina plan would be attributed to Kutuzov led to dissatisfaction, contempt, and ridicule, more and more strongly expressed.
8 The ridicule and contempt were of course expressed in a respectful form, making it impossible for him to ask wherein he was to blame.
9 On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.
10 Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.
11 Such conduct made them of course most exceedingly laughed at; but ridicule could not shame, and seemed hardly to provoke them.
12 Everyone had something to say in censure or ridicule of the luckless Madame Maltishtcheva, and the conversation crackled merrily, like a burning faggot-stack.
13 And he himself felt not only in the highest degree ridicule, but also utterly guilty and disgraced.
14 The dinner was first rate, and the boat race, and it was all pleasant enough, but in Moscow they can never do anything without something ridicule.
15 Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.
2 They seem to draw down ridicule on us.
3 The fear of ridicule is a very effective sanction.
4 She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job.
5 The prime minister was becoming an object of ridicule.
6 She is an object of ridicule in the tabloid newspapers.
7 The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.
8 They seek to draw down ridicule on me.
9 I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
10 The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.
11 Ben Rogers hove in sight presently -- the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.
12 Marilyn Monroe: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
13 These ridiculous rules and regulations should have been done away with years ago.
14 They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
15 There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.