ridicules
- present tense form of ridicule (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The piece was Italian Composer Felice Lattuada's pleasant if unimportant version of Moliere's Precicuses Ridicules, presented as curtain-raiser to Modeste Moussorgsky's boorish peasant farce, The Fair at Sorochintzy, whose premiere was given the fortnight before.
From Time Magazine Archive
This serio-comic delineation of dictatorship on the rampage deserves a special niche in your Hall of Famous Ridicules.
From Time Magazine Archive
When in 1659 his comedy Les précieuses Ridicules took Paris by storm, it did more than make a reformation of the manners of its own.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
Les Femmes Savantes, though produced many years subsequently, also found the originals of its characters in the same source whence Molière painted Les Précieuses Ridicules.
From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
To Mr Mansion also is due the credit for the translation of the "Les Souhaits Ridicules" and for the adaptation of "Peau d'Asne."
From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Clarke, Harry
