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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