Ridiculed

Examples

• I never saw her ridiculed before. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Such a character of God, if not ridiculed by our young men, is likely to be imitated by them. Plato. The Republic.
• These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• By this means the attention of the public was fixed on that paper, and Keimer's proposals, which we burlesqued and ridiculed, were disregarded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The laugh was so strange that Lily coloured under it: she disliked being ridiculed, and her father seemed to see something ridiculous in the request. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She scornfully ridiculed the idea. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They had talked, and they had been silent; he had reasoned, she had ridiculed; and they had parted at last with mutual vexation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• On their first introduction, omnibuses were considered absurdities, and were ridiculed as painted hearses. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I had ridiculed the fears of my countrymen, when they related to others; now that they came home to myself, I paused. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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