1 They seem to draw down ridicule on us.

2 Silly mistakes often arouse ridicule.

3 She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job.

4 The government's proposals were held up to ridicule by opposition ministers.

5 A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.

6 The prime minister was becoming an object of ridicule.

7 His ideas were held up to ridicule.

8 Her foolish actions exposed her to ridicule.

9 She doesn't ridicule my timidity.

10 The fear of ridicule is a very effective sanction.

11 They seek to draw down ridicule on me.

12 You mustn't ridicule unfortunate people.

13 He is exposed to the ridicule of the public.

14 She feared becoming an object of ridicule.

15 Her plans were held up to ridicule.

16 Such a statement could lay her open to ridicule.

17 By doing that,[] he laid himself open to ridicule.

18 She is an object of ridicule in the tabloid newspapers.

19 He became an object of ridicule among the other workers.

20 He had become an object of ridicule among the other teachers.

21 You lay yourself open to ridicule wearing clothes like that.

22 His ridicule chafed her.

23 Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepestdespair; can transferknowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions .Words are capable of arousingthe strongest emotions and prompting all man's actions , Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy. 

24 The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.

25 I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back.

26 The women's medical school opened in 1874, to the accompaniment of much ridicule of "lady doctors".

27 Their theories were badly thought out and very vulnerable to ridicule.

28 The government has left itself open to mockery and ridicule.

29 As a heavy child, she became the object of ridicule from classmates.

30 We tried not to seem critical or judgmental while giving advice that would protect him from ridicule.

1 They seem to draw down ridicule on us.

2 Silly mistakes often arouse ridicule.

3 The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.

4 She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job.

5 The government's proposals were held up to ridicule by opposition ministers.

6 A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.

7 I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back.

31 The only safe object of ridicule was Inspector Fowler.

32 Often they fear ridicule or a rebuttal.

33 Ridicule is the best test of truth. Lord Chesterfield 

34 Willie just cries out for ridicule, don't you think?

35 He criticized comedy because it was based on ridicule.

36 What Schott got for her words was ridicule.

37 Or, heaven forbid, ridicule him?

38 She became an object of ridicule.

39 Above all it held up to ridicule the idea that political decisions should be taken within a moral framework.

40 He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule.

41 If the cucullati could be depicted as objects of ridicule, other religious images could have suffered too.

42 A faintly comical figure, he fears ridicule above all else.

43 Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land.

44 Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward.

45 Sound-proofed and travelling at speed, we can enjoy every moment of it, without risking offence or ridicule.

46 His looks, his temperament, his background - even his name marked him off for ridicule.

47 The U. S. Postal Service has finally won the right to ridicule its competitors.

48 Ridicule, imprisonment or even death may be used against those who will not fight the socially defined enemy.

49 Although he was subjected to ridicule by his colleagues, he remained firmly convinced.

50 Ridicule is a decidedly more entertaining version of the genre with the grace to flash us some intelligence and self-consciousness.

51 Cynics - who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed - may ridicule you.

52 Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobody listened to him.

53 Who knew, until this week, that you were a cartoon character of ridicule?

54 With even-handed ridicule, John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both.

55 She might be infuriated by the sewing-circle boredom; but she would hear no ridicule.

56 Her immigrant father with his thick mustache and accent and three-piece suit would only bring her more ridicule.

57 These playwrights claimed they could correct vice only by sentiment, not ridicule.

58 Sentimental dramatists insist that comedy should have a higher purpose than merely to ridicule the weaknesses of mankind.

59 Far from rendering them subject to ridicule, such a stress is one of the best ways to hold an audience and gain sympathy.

60 This is not the sort of ambition which you can advertise without attracting ridicule.

61 She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind.

62 She told him that he would cover himself with ridicule by bringing the boy back.

63 If he had said he was acting under his own authority, he would have laid himself open to ridicule.

64 We know that the parents of aggressive children use more ridicule, nagging and scolding than other parents.

65 The team reaps only ridicule or, on a good day, apathy.

66 Even when such claims evoked skepticism and ridicule, both the sick and the curious continued to come.

67 The ridicule and disparagement on talk radio confirms why an Ebonics program makes sense.

68 He hated being the object of public attention and ridicule like some fairground mountebank.

69 He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule,[http:///ridicule.html] condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.

70 It had not escaped Cecilia's notice that to many people, even today, old women are objects of ridicule.

71 We seem obsessed as a nation with school failure, with horror stories, with ridicule.

72 If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.

73 At first, Lucien had watched them in awed fascination, hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule.

74 He has a child now and he wants her to grow up without facing ridicule because of his actions.

75 He felt so ashamed of his weakness, but George didn't ridicule him at all.

76 Gradually, the enterprise became the object of good-natured office ridicule.

77 However, the uniformed, sixteen-legged crocodile was an easy target for ridicule.

78 And, unlike a lot of recent period movies, Ridicule certainly has resonance in our time.

79 Given the numbers of the disadvantaged, critics of Treasury ridicule the whole proposal.

80 Schumacher fiddled energetically with his signet ring, and offered no further conversation beyond a snort of ridicule.

81 To ridicule with a pasquinade; satirize or lampoon.

82 He began by pouring ridicule on the whig leader.

83 Isn't ridicule one of the seven deadly sins?

84 It is shallow of you to ridicule abstract art.

85 They pelted him with ridicule and vilification.

86 Fashion: a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

87 To make a travesty of; parody or ridicule .

88 He had become inured to ridicule.

89 Silly mistakes and queer clothes often arouse ridicule.

90 He became the object of ridicule and scorn.

91 We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

92 That would inoculate the new owners from ridicule a cathartic demolition for the Country Club set.

93 The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

94 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.

95 I believe, one thousand thousand medium and small businesses, one hundred million jobs, 1000000000 of consumers, will draw a lot of criticism, ridicule, satire, never mind, the one we used to.

96 Frank White became an object of ridicule for the opponents of the creation science law.

97 The lyrics ridicule Gadhafi and lambast him for his treatment of the country in the past four decades.

98 Creativity can also be hindered by the frustration of initial failure or third-party ridicule.

99 At home I was very lively, love to laugh, likes to watch TV, ridicule, go all lengths.

100 Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many years.

101 But far be it for me to ridicule science when it is based on observable facts and replicable evidence.

102 He thinks how Shrike will ridicule him at the speakeasy , telling him to give his readers stones.

103 To choose such a line of work is to invite ridicule.

104 You lay yourself open to ridicule by suggesting such an outlandish plan.

105 You could be tempted to, if you thought that others might marginalize it or ridicule it.

106 The weightiness of the earlier stage, humor and ridicule of the later and finally the joy of pure form can only make us taste a kind of bleak flavor of life.

107 The boss of 500 Start-ups, a fund that provides seed capital to entrepreneurs, Mr McClure had the shirt designed to ridicule an accusation that he and several other financiers have been colluding.

108 I can't figure out why they ridicule this constructive suggestion.

109 What are we to do when others ridicule andsubtly ostracize us?

110 Oh. I would rather mount the scaffold of my brother, Louis XVI. , than thus descend the staircase at the Tuileries driven away by ridicule.

111 However, the red color similar to that of seals is powerful enough to penetrate through time, to ridicule forgettery , and chain up our fates again.

112 And the same mix of disinformation, ridicule and smut would eventually be employed against the Japanese.

113 Delaisse was riding his pony cub road test, many people have been ridicule.

114 The process of judicial selection was held up to ridicule.

115 A disciple cannot expect to break bread with Christ and not be subject to the same ridicule that Christ himself endured.

116 In the House of Commons the most devastating weapon is ridicule.

117 Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

118 To ridicule or satirize in or as if in a lampoon.

119 I'm a layman. What I'm going to say may expose myself to ridicule, yet I still want to say a few words.

120 Mrs Seton snorted in ridicule and leant closer. "Her first husband was no more than a boy!