An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. "(Marlborough) was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries." "To the people... but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule."
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"Ridicule" Quotes from Famous Books — Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various — The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu — The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton — The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon — The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin |
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