as in mocked
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
the term "big bang theory" was originally coined to ridicule the belief that the universe was created by a giant explosion
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Recent Examples of ridiculed
Fear of being outed or being suspected or being made fun of, ridiculed, losing your standing.
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Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
Democrats ridiculed Vance’s performance.
—Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Mamdani has many bold ideas to address this—some of which have been ridiculed—and not all will be achieved.
—Sally Susman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Evidently the Miami Dolphins didn’t like being mocked and ridiculed all week, nationally by the football media and at home by their own angry fans.
—Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Claiming victimhood was a cop-out; those who made accusations of assault were ridiculed.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
When he wasn’t being ridiculed and ignored, Tupac was writing.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Hegseth has ridiculed some of the media concerns and embraced the dispute on social media.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Using simple yet incandescent prose, Paine renounced, repudiated and ridiculed at a clip seldom witnessed in print before or since.
—Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
Democrats ridiculed Vance’s performance.
—Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Mamdani has many bold ideas to address this—some of which have been ridiculed—and not all will be achieved.
—Sally Susman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Evidently the Miami Dolphins didn’t like being mocked and ridiculed all week, nationally by the football media and at home by their own angry fans.
—Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Claiming victimhood was a cop-out; those who made accusations of assault were ridiculed.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
When he wasn’t being ridiculed and ignored, Tupac was writing.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Hegseth has ridiculed some of the media concerns and embraced the dispute on social media.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Using simple yet incandescent prose, Paine renounced, repudiated and ridiculed at a clip seldom witnessed in print before or since.
—Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridiculed
mocked
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In another photo obtained by TMZ, Matthews also mocked Perry’s headline-making photo of her kissing the ground following her return to Earth.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
10 Nov. 2025
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Elites stirred up a now familiar moral panic about commerce corrupting letters and mocked Grub Street even as its writers built the first modern freelance economy and mass-print culture.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Ridiculed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridiculed. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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