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His laughing at himself as a Snob when affecting the company of great people is delightful, though there seems to be in this self-ridicule something of the true word spoken in jest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various

His struggling soul broke loose from the depths and hunted safety in self-ridicule: “I might better have left the wheat at home and never have built the fool ship.”

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

He raised himself again with a grimace of self-ridicule.

From Charles Rex by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

He takes his clothes off the chair and dresses himself, keeping up a jeering comment of self-ridicule, as he puts on each shabby article of attire.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus

The members had their laughing allusions, and talked—in a strain of self-ridicule precisely similar to Coverdale's—of having bands of music to play for the field-laborers, who should plough in tune.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons