ridiculing

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ridiculed};p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Ridiculing}.]
   To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule
   toward or respecting.
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         I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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   Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize;
        lampoon. See {Deride}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "ridiculing":
      abusive, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, bitchy,
      blackening, blameful, booing, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling,
      catty, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous,
      contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative,
      deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
      derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disparaging,
      disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering,
      flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, impudent, insolent,
      invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental,
      kidding, leering, libelous, minimizing, mocking, objurgatory,
      panning, pejorative, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing,
      rallying, razzing, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, roasting,
      scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting,
      smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering,
      sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying,
      vituperative

    

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