Definitions for ridicules

ridicules rid·i·cule

Spelling: [rid-i-kyool]
IPA: /ˈrɪd ɪˌkyul/

Ridicules is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 371 anagrams from letters in ridicules (cdeiilrsu).

Definitions for ridicules

noun

  1. speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  2. speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.

verb (used with object)

  1. to deride; make fun of.
  2. to deride; make fun of.

Origin of ridicules

1665-75; Latin rīdiculum a joke, equivalent to rīd(ēre) to laugh + -i- -i- + -culum -cule2

Examples for ridicules

You put yourself out there for ridicule ‘cause it’s your face they see.

Over time, because of its popularity among young girls, it became the object of ridicule.

Although sprightly, Lilith is unusually small for her age, and thereby the butt of ridicule from her classmates.

Young men are so governed by fashion, and so afraid of ridicule.

The wackiest of Mormon teachings—many unknown to practicing Mormons today—have been dredged up and held to ridicule.

This powerful fear of ridicule conquered, or suppressed, all other feelings.

Would they bear the ridicule of the other boys of their own age?

However, the reaction—and the ridicule—was so extreme that he soon backed down.

Let ridicule be abashed before the majesty of such characters!

At the same time, they have their use, where they do not create their ridicule.

Franco Sacchetti (nov. 151) ridicules their claims to wisdom.

In a letter to Mcenas (xix) he ridicules his imitators and mocks at his critics.

It ridicules the highest motives, and degrades the most heroic achievements.

It ridicules Pentagon claims that the problems were the product of a “few rotten apples.”

He ridicules the arrogation to itself by the 'Compact' of a monopoly of loyalty.

Why a-prigging of wipes, and sneeze-boxes, and ridicules, and such.

He ridicules with much sarcasm Weber's overture to 'Oberon.'

Though he discards the notion of a devil, I do not find that he ever ridicules it.

The persons whom Plato ridicules in the epilogue to the Euthydemus are of this class.

If a man sneers and ridicules, we are not to retaliate with ridicule and sneers.

Word Value for ridicules
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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