ridicule
noun
speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
was ridiculing
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past progressiveof ridicule.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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This West End heckler was ridiculing us for two things, one petty — that we would spend money on tickets to such a show — the other poisonous.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2021
Even then, Bardy said, the prime minister was ridiculing the slain journalist’s work.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
Of course all the local farmers loved their skittles nights, and they thought I was ridiculing them, so I had my first taste of public furore.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013
Gus was ridiculing a conversation a fellow therapist and I were having about a 13-year-old she was treating for depression and acute anxiety.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2010
He was very keen at the present moment about Metropolitan railways, and was ridiculing the folly of those who feared that the railway projectors were going too fast.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
