ridicule

She’s let her hair go gray but kept up her tan, and she’s careful not to ridicule the ways her body has changed with age.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Indeed, “Apartment House” got the lion’s share of bicentennial attention and ridicule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

There has been a determination to change the country's World Cup narrative after a 1974 debut that left them ripe for ridicule.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

And in its high and mighty position, it became an object of ridicule.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

Until then he had not thought of his speech as being subject to ridicule.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

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

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.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024

This is a show that ridicules the genre's feverish dedication to pimping childhood trauma and other excuses for hyper-masculinity by doubling down on the deep friendship that keeps Harley and Ivy firmly rooted.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2023

However, the medical community ridicules him for the effort, and he’s never able to repeat his success.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

As to those analogues: Jackson ridiculed Alito’s refusal to acknowledge that they show how “states routinely required affirmative consent for armed carry onto private property” at the founding.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

"It shows once again that when victims and survivors seek help, or support, or accountability, they are silenced, or ridiculed, or attacked," she added.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

The long-awaited Ferrari Luce, from a team including former Apple designer Jony Ive, was ridiculed for looking like the mass-market Nissan Leaf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

When she did, she was maliciously disbelieved and ridiculed by the likes of Drake and 50 Cent.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

What belief did I ever hold in my father, whose daily life I so often ridiculed and looked upon with such abject shame?

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

To say there even is such a thing reduces a wildly diverse group into a trite narrative that I’ve spent my career trying to debunk, when not ridiculing it altogether.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

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

The boys avenged their pain by ridiculing their teachers.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat