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remarks or behavior intended to make someone or something seem silly by making fun of them in an unkind way
The idea met with such ridicule that it was dropped.
Her old-fashioned ideas risk making her an object of ridicule.
The government could be held up to ridicule if the project goes ahead unchanged.
