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ridicule

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To make someone or something the object of scornful amusement.

The satire uses an absurd ceremony to ridicule empty displays of status.

Dictionary practice example.

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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