ridicule
noun
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
self-ridicule
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a word derived from
ridicule.
Example Sentences
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"Your words"—a pause, and quietly With touch of calm self-ridicule: "It may be so—for then," said he, "I was a fool."
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
Her self-ridicule at the absurdity of her mistake regarding Dr. Rogers' pretty nurse had had a salutary effect.
From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
I was painfully conscious of self-ridicule whenever I offered myself for the job.
From The Glory of the Trenches by Coningsby Dawson
This lukewarmness, this indifference, this hushing-up, this self-ridicule, they are our misfortune.
From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank
He thanked her courteously, recovering his composure with a smile that was not without self-ridicule, and in a moment they were talking again upon impersonal matters.
From Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
