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ridicules
noun as in contemptuous laughter at someone or something
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verb as in make contemptuous fun of something or someone
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The premise is simple — Scorsese, perfectionist filmmaker, mercilessly ridicules the photos he took of his nephew’s birthday party — but it’s his deadpan performance that really sells the joke.
When Charlie Brown joyfully returns to his friends with the spindly little tree, the gang ridicules his choice.
When he mocks and ridicules people who many right-leaning men believe have disrespected them, it puffs them up a little bit.
A majority of consumers of Asian and Pacific Islander descent are not willing to shrug off media and advertising that ridicules or mishandles their culture.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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