ridicule

This is particularly the case amongst the country's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu - and has become a subject of debate and in some cases ridicule for the men with female surnames.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

He faced ridicule after belatedly acknowledging that he played tennis during the day, a detail that was left out his initial accounts.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

She’s let her hair go gray but kept up her tan, and she’s careful not to ridicule the ways her body has changed with age.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

But negative perceptions took hold through the year and into 2025, starting with the ridicule the vehicle’s boxy design attracted on the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

He concluded by saying he would rather have an ape for a grandfather than be descended from a man who introduced ridicule into a serious scientific discussion.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

The premise is simple — Scorsese, perfectionist filmmaker, mercilessly ridicules the photos he took of his nephew’s birthday party — but it’s his deadpan performance that really sells the joke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

When Harris doubts or ridicules his stature, his wealth, the size of his crowds, or whatever, he feels compelled to fight back and restore his eminent centrality at once.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024

Libii’s story underlines the self-negation involved in the trope of the title and ridicules the expectations and constraints forced upon Black people in myriad ways.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Padden said during an announcement of the bill that “it ridicules and demeans people.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

However, the medical community ridicules him for the effort, and he’s never able to repeat his success.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Dundon’s move was widely criticized — and ridiculed — after the Hurricanes on Thursday posted a picture of the engravings on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

As to those analogues: Jackson ridiculed Alito’s refusal to acknowledge that they show how “states routinely required affirmative consent for armed carry onto private property” at the founding.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

When Dubois answers awkwardly or offers clipped responses, he is often ridiculed online.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

When she did, she was maliciously disbelieved and ridiculed by the likes of Drake and 50 Cent.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

She even ridiculed him in her mind and was a little ashamed of the association.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

At a demonstration outside the Parliament building in the Bulgarian capital, a giant screen looped videos and memes ridiculing politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

To say there even is such a thing reduces a wildly diverse group into a trite narrative that I’ve spent my career trying to debunk, when not ridiculing it altogether.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Both Daniels and Trump, who is the actual defendant, come out of these exchanges sounding like schoolchildren ridiculing each other.

From Slate ● May 10, 2024

But those bands did so at their own risk; in those days Mr. Albini was also known for ridiculing the bands he recorded after the fact.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

If I seem to be ridiculing Charley, look you at what I was doing in the next half hour and also what my neighbor was doing.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck