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"ridicule" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often mockery (7 letters).
Definitions
subject to laughter or ridicule
Word origin
The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
Used in a sentence
“His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.”
“Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.”
“[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Subject to mockery”8 letters
02“Mocking laughter”8 letters
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