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Ridiculing the enemy also provides a feel-good act of defiance, intended to enhance national unity and bolster the morale of Ukrainians beleaguered by six months of war.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

Ridiculing the films’ lack of social awareness is one tack, but the jokes about cultural appropriation in “Twister Beach” are too labored to be funny or incisive.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2016

Ridiculing Mao is almost unthinkable in China today.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011

Ridiculing players always offers a hostage to fortune and who but the most charmless berk would complain when they have the last laugh?

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2010

Ridiculing such things, could he, in any just sense, be thought a Christian?

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas