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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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It ridicules Pentagon claims that the problems were the product of a “few rotten apples.”
In a word, Boileau ridicules Perrault much more than he justifies Homer.
He ridicules their morals and their offices as severely as he points out their impotency to bestow happiness.
She despises children's balls, and ridicules children's rights and "Liliputian coquetry" with ribbons and feathers.
Mr. Jones ridicules the would-be reformers of London, and represents their efforts as resulting in a pitiable fiasco.
Paulo Guetta, for example, in a recent exhaustive work on the subject, ridicules the use of the old precepts.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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