ridicule
noun
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
ridiculer
-
a word derived from
ridicule.
Example Sentences
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"You a ridiculer of superstitions?" said Danville, turning quickly on him.
From After Dark by Wilkie Collins
A ridiculer then is the best champion to meet another ridiculer; their scurrilities magically undo each other.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
I rather think the author wishes to be taken by Gray's admirers for a ridiculer of Johnson, and by the tatter's for a censurer of Gray.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
