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

"They will think that you are ridiculing them, and will turn you out."

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence