ridicule
noun
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
had ridiculed
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past perfectof ridicule.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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After that superb opening game, coach Jim Harbaugh had a message for everyone who had ridiculed his young receiver over the years:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
He had ridiculed newspaper reports, which later turned out to be true, that the party had lost 30,000 members.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
Since then, Musk has moved quickly to begin making changes at the company, which he had ridiculed for months for being slow to introduce product changes or take down spam accounts.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2022
Ivan Urgant, the most prominent late-night comedian on state television, had ridiculed the idea of a looming war on his show earlier this month.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Certain whims that he had ridiculed in Alice were now his own.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
