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Example sentences for: ridiculed

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Jesse Ventura watched his approval rating plummet 20 points--and heard calls that he should resign from the party--after the publication of a Playboy interview in which he ridiculed organized religion and said he wouldn't mind being reborn as an extra-large bra.
She lives in fear of breast cancer; adores Ingrid Bergman; learns to ride a bike, then, ridiculed by her family, abandons it.
But Wolf's politics are roundly ridiculed, especially her idea that girls should retreat to the wilderness with older women to perform ceremonial sex rites.
Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza , who first ridiculed Menchú's book in 1991, compared the lefty saint to Tawana Brawley in a recent op-ed, aligning her defenders with those who claimed that the truth of Brawley's allegations didn't matter.
This kind of qualification is often ridiculed as evasiveness by those who demand "no ifs, ands, or buts."