ridiculing

  • 1ridiculing — index cynical, disdainful Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Ridiculing — Ridicule Rid i*cule, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ridiculed};p. pr. & vb. n. {Ridiculing}.] To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. [1913 Webster] I ve known the young, who ridiculed his rage. Goldsmith. [1913… …

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  • 3ridiculing — adjective In a manner intended to ridicule …

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  • 4ridiculing — Synonyms and related words: abusive, aweless, back biting, bantering, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, booing, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling, catty, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory,… …

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  • 5ridiculing — rid·i·cule || rɪdɪkjuːl n. mockery, derision, scorn v. scorn, mock, deride, tease …

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  • 6Al Franken — Infobox Congressional Candidate name = Al Franken caption = nominee = U.S. Senator from Minnesota (2008 election) incumbent = Norm Coleman opponent = Norm Coleman Dean Barkley birth date = birth date and age|1951|5|21 birth place = New York, New… …

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  • 7The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman —   …

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  • 8ridicule — [rid′i kyo͞ol΄] n. [Fr < L ridiculum, a jest, laughable (thing), neut. of ridiculus, laughable, comical < ridere, to laugh < IE * wrizd , to avert the face (> Sans vrīda, embarrassment) < base * wer , to turn] 1. a) the act of… …

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  • 9sarcastic — adjective Date: 1695 1. having the character of sarcasm < sarcastic criticism > 2. given to the use of sarcasm ; caustic < a sarcastic critic > • sarcastically adverb Synonyms: sarcastic, satiric …

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  • 10Beyond the Fringe — was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. It played in Britain s West End and on New York s Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of …

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