ridicule
noun
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
are ridiculing
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present progressiveof ridicule.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Social media users are ridiculing a judge after he said the peacock was chosen as India's national bird because "it's considered pious" and follows "life-long celibacy".
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2017
Even Donny and Marie Osmond are ridiculing it in their own Christmas musical.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
Meanwhile, those who deny that liberty is an essential of human happiness are ridiculing democracy as unworkable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The press secretary to Nevada Republican Senator Chic Hecht recently observed that his boss is ignored by Senate colleagues except for the times when they are ridiculing him for his syntax-mangling style.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You are very cruel; you are ridiculing me," he said.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Olive Schreiner
