ridiculed

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Or a gender is ridiculed systematically during the learning process.

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Quick take

(transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

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verb

(transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ridiculed.

verb

(transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

Example sentences

Or a gender is ridiculed systematically during the learning process.

For all that these people can be ridiculed by simply quoting them, their successes are really alarming.

On IRC plenty of people who cry about getting a ban or K-line are ridiculed and told to go elsewhere.

But Rahul Yadav is very brashy too and publicly ridiculed the VCs several times on not taking decisions on his terms.

All opposing viewpoints must be shunned, and proponents of those contrarian ideas ridiculed and ruined.

The same way you will be ridiculed today for not using Facebook or whatsapp.

I have a friend who was ridiculed by a founder recently for not understanding the concept of equity.

If they don't, they'll be the parter tolerating their husband/wife cheating, and they'll be shamed, ridiculed, etc.

History is full of examples of people who see the world differently only to be ridiculed (or worst) and later proven to be correct.

Religoius superstition needs to be ridiculed and relegated to the history books.

For example, if you never watch ads in your home, your kid may get ridiculed in the school because he/she does not know about Ad xyz.

I remember being utterly ridiculed that weekend, after swearing about fixing servers on Facebook.

Quote examples

And speaking of censorship the FPH mods would ban any "sympathetic views" of ridiculed individuals.

Ideas that were ridiculed and rejected by "smart folks" only to alter society in a major way once proven to be correct.

Instead languages like Java and Go are ridiculed for the "missing" features (didn't they know that higher-order types were invented by academic language X Y years ago?

Do you have any stories or links for things about people saying "horrible and bigoted shit" about Christians or some other majority religion and then not getting ridiculed/lambasted by some other portion of the population, or not being criminally charged?