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Ridiculing the enemy also provides a feel-good act of defiance, intended to enhance national unity and bolster the morale of Ukrainians beleaguered by six months of war.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

Ridiculing the films’ lack of social awareness is one tack, but the jokes about cultural appropriation in “Twister Beach” are too labored to be funny or incisive.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2016

Ridiculing Mao is almost unthinkable in China today.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011

Ridiculing players always offers a hostage to fortune and who but the most charmless berk would complain when they have the last laugh?

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2010

Ridiculing those who clung to the old restrictive theory, he cited numerous actions of the party during the ten years it had been in power which could be justified only by constitutional implication.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Sparks, Edwin Erle