It was because I felt this that Dirk Stroeve was not to me, as to others, merely an object of ridicule.
I think in those days we were a little shy of our emotions, and the fear of ridicule tempered the more obvious forms of pretentiousness.
The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him.
Redfern's good-humoured ridicule of dear old Lady Jane stung her to life.
Ben Rogers hove in sight presently—the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.
Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy.
Conformity always includes a threat of punishment if you fail to fit in, whether it comes from ridicule, being shunned by others, or direct attack.
"That type of thing [can prompt] ridicule?
But responding to the slew of ridicule tonight, Mrs May admitted: 'I suspect my dancing this morning might not make it on to Strictly.
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.
Plenty of people were vocally disappointed in the MacBook's lack of ports while the iPhone X's notch has attracted a bit of ridicule.
The article soon garnered scathing responses on the internet, with many bloggers commenting with the line "The current people are not okay" to ridicule the author's argument, which is now used to mock official misconduct or social problems.
Behind the ridicule was the feeling that even if its headphones really do sound better than others', Apple's motivations were primarily commercial.
Yet you can only endure so much ridicule before it becomes toxic.
Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
Conformity always includes a threat of punishment if you fail to fit in, whether it comes from ridicule, being shunned by others, or direct attack.
France's national rail operator SNCF has sparked ridicule after ordering a multi-million pound fleet of trains that are too tall to fit in Italy's tunnels.
Fear of ridicule may also mean they avoid exercise.
In fact, McDonalds' schmaltzy Super Bowl "Pay it with Lovin'" campaign was met with ridicule and continues to backfire all the way to its planned expiration on Valentine's Day.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.