ridicule

"When there is no smoke, we send oxygen," he added, in a video that has been widely circulated on social media, triggering criticism and ridicule from Malaysians and Singaporeans.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Many firms deliberately hold blue-sky sessions where participants are asked to voice ideas they would normally suppress fearing colleague ridicule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The public ridicule remained ceaseless, but alleged tension was also brewing behind palace walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

He faced ridicule after belatedly acknowledging that he played tennis during the day, a detail that was left out his initial accounts.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cartoons continued to ridicule Catherine O’Leary and curious tourists came to gawk at the O’Learys’ property.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

When Charlie Brown joyfully returns to his friends with the spindly little tree, the gang ridicules his choice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

When Harris doubts or ridicules his stature, his wealth, the size of his crowds, or whatever, he feels compelled to fight back and restore his eminent centrality at once.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024

Libii’s story underlines the self-negation involved in the trope of the title and ridicules the expectations and constraints forced upon Black people in myriad ways.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Padden said during an announcement of the bill that “it ridicules and demeans people.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

He doesn’t take their money and usually doesn’t shove them, but he ridicules them.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

However, Kim Yo Jong ridiculed Lee's latest overture, calling it "the climax of the farce that everyone should watch."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Stevenson said that since her mistake she had been ridiculed and bullied online.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg even made it a point to ride his bike to work, a choice that Trump ridiculed.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

This sign of respect in America and Europe, this symbol of heritage and lineage, would be ridiculed in India.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Calling on allies to “step up” after ridiculing them was “ham-handed,” Radd said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

At a demonstration outside the Parliament building in the Bulgarian capital, a giant screen looped videos and memes ridiculing politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Both Daniels and Trump, who is the actual defendant, come out of these exchanges sounding like schoolchildren ridiculing each other.

From Slate ● May 10, 2024

But those bands did so at their own risk; in those days Mr. Albini was also known for ridiculing the bands he recorded after the fact.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

He’s gaining volume and kind of enjoying ridiculing me, the way somebody just a few years older than you can love power more than genuinely old people like your parents.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle