Example Sentences

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But no one is ridiculing the wisdom of employing Richard Halsall as their fielding coach at the moment.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2010

It's unclear what exactly Franken is ridiculing in this political satire, but the results are certainly funny.

From Time Magazine Archive

I need not carry the conversation on any farther to show that Cicero is ridiculing the whole thing.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

Aristophanes is ridiculing vulgar and coarse jests, which, however, he does not always avoid himself.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

There he is parodying the ingenious follies of early logic; in the Cratylus he is ridiculing the fancies of a new school of sophists and grammarians.

From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin