Words similar to ridicule

Example sentences for: ridicule

How can you use “ridicule” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I'm glad you're putting Magnolia on your 10-best list, because it needs champions; it seems to me so poignantly vulnerable to ridicule.
However, there is still concern that many studies are not paying enough attention to the exacting protocols needed to overcome the technical challenges of the discipline and to defend it from the ridicule that has plagued it in the past.
Have you noticed that travelers are always quick to ridicule other travelers?
In La Repubblica of Rome Sunday, the paper's founding editor, Eugenio Scalfari, wrote, "We wanted an 'intelligent' military intervention, but we have had the stupidest intervention imaginable," and he proposed that NATO should definitively stop describing its war aims as "humanitarian" so as to protect itself from ridicule.
Second, it's hilarious to hear people say about Starr's leaks--as I never did and never would with regard to the president--that breaking a law isn't important because everyone does it, at the same time that they ridicule the notion that lying under oath about sex would be OK because lots of people have, or would, do it.