ridicule
Nouns
- (n) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
- (n) the act of deriding or treating with contempt derision,
Verbs
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(v) subject to laughter or ridicule
- The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
- The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
- His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday