ridicule

Atletico often use their social media accounts to respond to rivals, repeatedly posting on X this summer to ridicule Barcelona over their pursuit of Atletico's talisman Julian Alvarez.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Many firms deliberately hold blue-sky sessions where participants are asked to voice ideas they would normally suppress fearing colleague ridicule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

Even many years later, seeing a Kroger’s McIntosh in our suburban kitchen, she would hold it up to ridicule, saying, “This is nothing. This we fed to goats.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

However, Kim Yo Jong ridiculed Lee's latest overture, calling it "the climax of the farce that everyone should watch."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

If the Rams lose, it could be ridiculed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg even made it a point to ride his bike to work, a choice that Trump ridiculed.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

We were taken to task for overlooking any of more than 30 other intense rivalries and ridiculed for failing to appreciate that England vs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

There was vehemence in his voice, and I felt I was its object, as if I had already ridiculed Dr. Pérez.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

"For example, a tweet being shared to allege homophobia on my part was actually ridiculing homophobia," he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

Times columnist Bill Plaschke agreed, saying — in L.A. circles — the portrayal would be akin to mocking Sandy Koufax, ridiculing John Wooden or trashing Vin Scully.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024

Raising his phone to capture the confrontation on video, the senator began ridiculing her.

From New York Times ● May 26, 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