Examples of ridicule in a Sentence
Noun
She didn't show anyone her artwork for fear of ridicule.
the early efforts by the suffragists to obtain voting rights for women were met with ridicule
Verb
The other kids ridiculed him for the way he dressed.
They ridiculed all of her suggestions.
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Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
The Cybertruck’s angular design was divisive, and the attention-grabbing vehicle occasionally became the target of ridicule and vandalism when a backlash against Musk swelled last year.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Though initially dismissed and even ridiculed, Mitchell went on to win the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his idea that a current of protons constantly flows into the cell as the cell vigorously pumps them back out, and that this is the driving force behind key cellular processes.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio similarly drew ridicule when he was caught using a knife and fork to eat pizza instead of grabbing the slice with his hands like any real New Yorker paisano would.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
The Cybertruck’s angular design was divisive, and the attention-grabbing vehicle occasionally became the target of ridicule and vandalism when a backlash against Musk swelled last year.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Though initially dismissed and even ridiculed, Mitchell went on to win the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his idea that a current of protons constantly flows into the cell as the cell vigorously pumps them back out, and that this is the driving force behind key cellular processes.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Ridicule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridicule. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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ridicule
1 of 2 noun
rid·i·cule
ˈrid-ə-ˌkyü(ə)l 
: the act of making fun of someone or something : derision
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