ridicule

Nouns

  • (n) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
  • (n) the act of deriding or treating with contempt derision,

Verbs

  • (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
    blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast,

Synonyms

blackguard guy jest at laugh at make fun poke fun rib roast derision

Words of close approximity

ridiculer