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To make someone or something the object of scornful amusement.

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ridicule

The satire uses an absurd ceremony to ridicule empty displays of status.
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A cartoonist chose to ridicule a museum guide's claims to perfect knowledge by drawing him pointing toward several contradictory destinations at once.
From Criticism in the Public Eye.
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