as in mocked
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
the term "big bang theory" was originally coined to ridicule the belief that the universe was created by a giant explosion
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Recent Examples of ridiculed
He’s ostracized, bullied, ridiculed, beaten.
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Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Though initially dismissed and even ridiculed, Mitchell went on to win the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his idea that a current of protons constantly flows into the cell as the cell vigorously pumps them back out, and that this is the driving force behind key cellular processes.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
Instead, we are ridiculed and pitied globally.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
The 2017 Kusama show was also ridiculed in some corners.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
It was ridiculed in many quarters for doing so.
—Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Bondi was ridiculed over a move to hand out binders of Epstein files to conservative influencers at the White House, only for it to be later revealed that the documents included no new revelations.
—Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2026
Bondi was ridiculed over a move to hand out binders of Epstein files to conservative influencers at the White House only for it to be later revealed that the documents included no new revelations.
—Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Though initially dismissed and even ridiculed, Mitchell went on to win the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his idea that a current of protons constantly flows into the cell as the cell vigorously pumps them back out, and that this is the driving force behind key cellular processes.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
Instead, we are ridiculed and pitied globally.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
The 2017 Kusama show was also ridiculed in some corners.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
It was ridiculed in many quarters for doing so.
—Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Bondi was ridiculed over a move to hand out binders of Epstein files to conservative influencers at the White House, only for it to be later revealed that the documents included no new revelations.
—Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2026
Bondi was ridiculed over a move to hand out binders of Epstein files to conservative influencers at the White House only for it to be later revealed that the documents included no new revelations.
—Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridiculed
mocked
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Few people had Tate mocked to go this high, especially if Arvell Reese was going to be on the board.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Apr. 2026
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Sources at the premiere’s after-party speculated about whether Wintour had given her famous friends the heads-up that they were mocked in a movie that all of Conde had come up to support.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Ridiculed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridiculed. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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