ridicule
noun
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
had been ridiculing
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past perfect progressiveof ridicule.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She knows now that this man, whom she had been ridiculing for his unattractiveness, holds her — and her family — completely in his power.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2010
He had been ridiculing her big feet, and to get even with him she replied that he might have her old sealskin sacque made over into a pair of ear-muffs.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
The boys who had been ridiculing Romesh's method of coaching looked at me in awe, almost deafening me with congratulations.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
