ridicule
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Ridicule and moral superiority can too easily close the door to honest dialogue, while empathy and understanding, difficult as they may be, open the path to genuine transformation.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2025
Ridicule the Horned Frogs if you must, but know that Georgia could have made almost any challenger seem unworthy.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023
Ridicule, the more buffoonish the better, is a well-used tool in the unpicking of Fascist ideology, and Waititi cleaves to the Brooksian principle: that which does not kill me makes me ruder.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 18, 2019
Ridicule, you see, is the last great death of a culture.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2019
“Part of this woman’s trouble is that kind of attitude. Ridicule she doesn’t need.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing ridicule
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English Words Derived from French, List 1
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Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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