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Word entry · 8 letters

ridicule

Best crossword clue

"Subject to mockery"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cdeiilruStarts with REnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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

01Subject to mockery8 letters
02Mocking laughter8 letters

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