noun, verb
noun [U] unkind comments that make fun of sb or make them look silly:
She is an object of ridicule in the tabloid newspapers. * to hold sb up to ridicule (= make fun of sb publicly)
verb [VN] to make sb/sth look silly by laughing at them or it in an unkind way
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ridicule is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does ridicule appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ridicule appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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