0 to laugh at someone in an unkind way -- высмеивать
I was ridiculed for saying they might win.
1 unkind behaviour in which you laugh at someone -- насмешка
Three historically important men are deliberately ridiculed or used as the agents of a comic effect in this opening scene, and each is presented as a parody of himself.
I wish to show how female fans are trivialised and ridiculed by dividing them into four categories: teenyboppers, 'serious music' fans, women in subcultures, and 'groupies'.
The woman who put style before function was ridiculed by men and women alike.
Both were also ridiculed and condemned for attracting charlatans and causing riots and disturbances.
Her 1954 book begins, for example, by ridiculing military leadership.
He had his own way of ridiculing people, and provoking them.
Examples of emotional maltreatment include belittling and ridiculing the child or exposure to severe marital violence.
Unless completely at home with it, he/she sounds artificial and affected and usually ends up being ridiculed or taunted.
