Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make ridiculous; ridicule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To make ridiculous; to ridicule.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To make ridiculous; to ridicule.

Etymologies

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ridicule +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • It is very curious that pepole who criticizes untolerance by religions tend to be very untolerant of them by taking every possible occasion to ridiculize them..

    Who is afraid of not believing in a god? AYDIN 2008

  • That's very typical of nihilism "I am tolerant because I claim to be tolerant" not because there is an objective definition of tolerance to which to refer, which, of course would include not to ridiculize people who do not share your ideas.

    Who is afraid of not believing in a god? AYDIN 2008

  • Yet for reasons I cannot fathom, they feel the need to ridiculize (yes, my word) the dignity of the sport with the goose-step march to the pool, the hair that looks like they practiced too close to an oil spill, the painted dummy grins, and the menacing music compounded by a lot of exploding in and out of the water with "grrrr" arms and clawed hands.

    Questions that Cause My Brow to Crinkle Adorably 2005

  • Also, I'm going to add ridiculize to my daily vocabulary.

    Questions that Cause My Brow to Crinkle Adorably 2005

  • Yet for reasons I cannot fathom, they feel the need to ridiculize (yes, my word) the dignity of the sport with the goose-step march to the pool, the hair that looks like they practiced too close to an oil spill, the painted dummy grins, and the menacing music compounded by a lot of exploding in and out of the water with "grrrr" arms and clawed hands.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • ELLIS-SCHIPPER: Well, I can give you an example of remarks that serve absolutely no purpose other than to ridiculize people ...

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2005 2005

  • Many public talks tried to ridiculize relativity, that easily survived thanks to its concrete and correct implications.

    From the Sublime to the Ridiculous cjohnson 2005

  • Anti-purist on the other hand will ridiculize any neologism generated from the native word-stock.

    languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

  • Where is the man who will not laugh at him, if he is told by him, you are a drunkard; and is it right to ridiculize a man, respectable by his rank, because he drank two or three gills of rum?

    Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de 1837

  • _ Where is the man who will not laugh at him, if he is told by him, _you are a drunkard; _ and is it right to ridiculize a man, respectable by his rank, because he drank two or three gills of rum?

    Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette 1795

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