1. ridicule - Noun
2. ridicule - Adjective
3. ridicule - Verb
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
Ridiculous.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. Blaise Pascal
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. Thomas Aquinas
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. Filipino Proverb
Do not ridicule the thin-bearded when you yourself have no beard. Arabic Proverb
Ridicule is the test of truth. Dutch Proverb