I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
expose yourself to ridicule/criticism etc (= say or do something that may make people laugh at you, criticize you etc )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
public
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He hated being the object of public attention and ridicule like some fairground mountebank.
■ VERB
hold
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Above all it held up to ridicule the idea that political decisions should be taken within a moral framework.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an object of pity/desire/ridicule etc
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A spendthrift with a regular, secure income is an object of desire among bankers.
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Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige, but becomes rather an object of pity.
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He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
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Mitch's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire.
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She became an object of ridicule.
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Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobody listened to him.
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Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If a child lives with ridicule , he learns to be shy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even when such claims evoked skepticism and ridicule , both the sick and the curious continued to come.
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He criticized comedy because it was based on ridicule .
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His looks, his temperament, his background - even his name marked him off for ridicule .
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Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward.
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Often they fear ridicule or a rebuttal.
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Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobody listened to him.
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Willie just cries out for ridicule , don't you think?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Petrocelli ridiculed the police conspiracy theory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Avoid insulting or ridiculing teenagers' efforts to be differ-ent.
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For a number of years she patiently withstood the abuse of her employers and fellow workers, who ridiculed her religious habits.
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For decades, consultants, politicians, pilots and travelers have ridiculed Lindbergh Field.
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Given the numbers of the disadvantaged, critics of Treasury ridicule the whole proposal.
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He felt so ashamed of his weakness, but George didn't ridicule him at all.
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Joseph was ridiculed for being serious.
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Their fellow church members 73 ridiculed, shunned, or expelled them-sometimes all three.