单词 | ridicule |
释义 | rid·i·cule I. 1. archaic 2. < my early work was written in secret to escape ridicule — Ellen Glasgow > 3. archaic < gave an air of ridicule to his greatest actions — Oliver Goldsmith > II. < death and disease ridicule man's petty arrogance — Harriet Zinnes > < pointed a moral or ridiculed his opponents — American Guide Series: Louisiana > Synonyms: < gouge, expose, and ridicule the stupidity of human beings — Edwin Edwards > < the man who wants to preserve his personal identity is ridiculed as an eccentric or resented as a snob — S.J.Harris > deride implies bitterness against or contempt for the person or thing derided < took his revenge on the fate that had made him sad by fiercely deriding everything — Aldous Huxley > < books were likely to be derided or ignored by the critics — E.A.Davidson > mock stresses the scorn, often ironic, of the person mocking < anger seized her at the suspicion that he was mocking them — Ellen Glasgow > < now taking on one expression and then another, in imitation of various people he was mocking — D.H.Lawrence > taunt implies mockery and suggests jeeringly provoking insults < taunt a boy into a fight > < the mill foreman so taunted the workers, so badgered them and told them that they dared not quit — Sinclair Lewis > twit formerly implied taunts or throwing something up to someone, but now, like rally, implies a bantering, good-humored teasing or mockery, though sometimes coming close to taunting < the absence of ideas with which Matthew Arnold twits them — W.R.Inge > < twit Victorian manners and morals — Time > < all the charming witticisms of English lecturers who twitted us about our standardization and materialism — Eric Sevareid > < he loved his mistress … no one dared … rally him on his weakness — G.B.Shaw > < it would be amusing to rally her friend … for neglecting his wife — Edith Sitwell > III. chiefly dialect |
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