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Example sentences for: ridicule

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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.
When I was younger I thought that ridicule could eventually bring the whole farce to an end, but now I know better.
Miss Norman said the remark, which she insists she never made, held her up to ridicule, mockery, and contempt, and conformed to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."
Have you noticed that travelers are always quick to ridicule other travelers?
Critics say the novel "wears a sort of KICKME sign" (Walter Kirn, New York ) in its baldfaced self-plagiarism and, worse, "it's never clear if we are meant to ridicule, pity, or envy" the characters (A.O.