ridicules
Example Sentences
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The piece was Italian Composer Felice Lattuada's pleasant if unimportant version of Moliere's Precicuses Ridicules, presented as curtain-raiser to Modeste Moussorgsky's boorish peasant farce, The Fair at Sorochintzy, whose premiere was given the fortnight before.
From Time Magazine Archive
This serio-comic delineation of dictatorship on the rampage deserves a special niche in your Hall of Famous Ridicules.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is an intolerable abuse, which Molière proscribed in his "Précieuses Ridicules."
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
But Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1659, struck an entirely different note.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
The satirists of the time were as unsparing of their ridicule as they were long afterward when Molière wrote his Femmes Savantes and his Précieuses Ridicules.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
