Crossword-Solution: RIDICULE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ridicule | n. | An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. |
| Ridicule | n. | Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision. |
| Ridicule | n. | Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. |
| Ridicule | v. t. | To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. |
| Ridicule | a. | Ridiculous. |
We have 107 clues for the answer “RIDICULE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| treatment of a person or thing as ridiculous | 1 answer |
| lambast | 2 answers |
| LOWER in dignity | 5 answers |
| knocking | 5 answers |
| Make sport of | 5 answers |
| APERY | 6 answers |
| Persiflage | 7 answers |
| Satirize | 7 answers |
| Jeering | 7 answers |
| risibility | 7 answers |
| BRING to nothing | 8 answers |
| BRING discredit on | 9 answers |
| bring to nought | 10 answers |
| deprecation | 10 answers |
| Tee-hee | 11 answers |
| Send up | 12 answers |
| trenchancy | 13 answers |
| Scoff (at) | 13 answers |
| causticity | 14 answers |
| satirise | 15 answers |
| Pooh-pooh | 15 answers |
| disparagement | 17 answers |
| flout | 18 answers |
| Iron-y? | 18 answers |
| Poke fun at | 18 answers |
| Scoffing | 19 answers |
| superbity | 19 answers |
| Morgue | 20 answers |
| MAKE scornful noise | 21 answers |
| chaff | 21 answers |
| Mimicry | 22 answers |
| Rib | 22 answers |
| make a fool of | 23 answers |
| Hauteur | 23 answers |
| forwardness | 24 answers |
| Deprecate | 24 answers |
| repulsion | 25 answers |
| Twit | 25 answers |
| Haughtiness | 25 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
| Giggle | 26 answers |
| Badinage | 26 answers |
| Josh | 26 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| Scoff | 27 answers |
| ANYTHING serving to set off another thing by contrast | 29 answers |
| LOWER in character | 30 answers |
| Razz | 31 answers |
| Guy | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with RIDICULE (5)
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.
Even had there been a disposition to turn the matter into ridicule, it must have been repressed and overpowered by the solemn presence of men no less dignified than the governor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a balcony of the meeting-house, looking down upon the platform.
Hadn’t they any clothes-brushes in the Future? The Journalist too, would not believe at any price, and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing.
Used almost exclusively in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre, this term (usually written "*plonk*") is a form of public ridicule.
But what was still more annoying, Brom took all opportunities of turning him into ridicule in presence of his mistress, and had a scoundrel dog whom he taught to whine in the most ludicrous manner, and introduced as a rival of Ichabod’s, to instruct her in psalmody.
Quotes with RIDICULE (3)
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la négation de siècles d’histoire boitillante et cassée. Ceux à qui il appartient de faire virevolter ces huit flamboyants au-dessus de nous ne le pourront qu’avec de la sève pure._ Manifestes du surréalisme
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).