ridicule
/ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/ noun C2- Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
- An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
- The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Plural ridicules
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Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation.
The dancing spectacle thus came to an end amidst the laughter and ridicule of the audience.
Oh, I would rather mount the scaffold of my brother, Louis XVI., than thus descend the staircase at the Tuileries driven away by ridicule.
Ridicule, sir—why, you know not its power in France, and yet you ought to know it!”
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