verb
definition
To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
example
His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
noun
definition
The act of exposing to ridicule.
adjective
definition
In a manner intended to ridicule.
Examples of ridiculing in a Sentence
Clark aspired to be a United States senator, but by ridiculing Daly, provoked a powerful opposition.
Funny doesn't mean ridiculing or insulting either.
Even though plenty of people are criticizing and ridiculing the Snuggie, there is no question that plenty others are taking note and buying it.
Watch your responses-While you may be extremely frustrated with your child, don't resort to punishing or ridiculing her.
Emotional abuse can involve a withholding of love, terrorizing a child, isolating someone, ridiculing and belittling a child, and exposing a child to illicit behaviors.
Four of the five vamps he'd chosen as bodyguards were exchanging looks of derision behind his back, and the vamp he tried to interrogate was openly ridiculing him.
The earthquake at Lisbon, which appalled other people, gave Voltaire an excellent opportunity for ridiculing the beliefs of the orthodox, first in verse (1756) and later in the (from a literary point of view) unsurpassable tale of Candide (1759).
He seems to have commenced his poetical career by ridiculing and parodying the conventional language of epic and tragic poetry, and to have used the language commonly employed in the social intercourse of educated men.
In the latter case he is perhaps unconsciously moved to put burlesque versions of Biblical stories into the mouths of his native informants, or to represent the savages as ridiculing the Scriptural traditions which he communicates to them.
These old canons are adduced by way of ridiculing the Armenians, yet they reflect old usage.
These men and their followers were never weary of ridiculing the timid caution of the aged statesman who sacrificed everything to perpetuate an inglorious peace and derisively nicknamed his adherents " Night-caps " (a term subsequently softened into " Caps "), themselves adopting the sobriquet " Hats," from the threecornered hat worn by officers and gentlemen, which was considered happily to hit off the manly self-assertion of the opposition.
If at times they had recourse to ambiguity of speech and veiled polemic, this might be partly excused when we remember the hanging of Thomas Aikenhead in 1697 for ridiculing the Bible, and Woolston's imprisonment in 1729.