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Donald Trump has ridiculed Denmark's defence of Greenland as amounting to "two dogsleds", but the Sirius Dogsled Patrol is no joke: the elite navy unit works in extreme conditions where only the toughest survive.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Barkley has ridiculed Davis for being injury prone in the past.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

New Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti is a lawyer who has defended a government member accused of rape and sexual assault, and has ridiculed women speaking out thanks to the #MeToo movement.

From Washington Times • Jul. 10, 2020

But more recently on his feed he has ridiculed the media for running with the suggestion, and states directly that he had been joking.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2016

Which it must be owned is downright nonsense, and a contradiction in terms: Amongst others captain Radcliff has ridiculed this blunder in the following lines of his News from Hell.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus