Usually means: Mocking someone or something harshly.
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  1. ridiculing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ridiculing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ridiculing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ridiculing, ridiculing: Wordnik
  5. ridiculing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ridiculing: Wiktionary
  7. Ridiculing, ridiculing: Dictionary.com
  8. ridiculing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ridiculing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Ridiculing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Ridiculing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ridiculing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. ridiculing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ridiculing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ridiculing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See ridicule as well.)

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▸ adjective:  In a manner intended to ridicule.
▸ noun:  The act of exposing to ridicule.

Similar:
poke fun, blackguard, derision, laugh at, guy, rib, jest at, make fun, deprecating, sardonic, more...

Opposite:
praising, complimenting, applauding, admiring

Types:
irony, sarcasm, mockery, derision, parody, satire, more...

Adjectives:
constant, public, such, natured, private, self

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Similar:
poke fun, blackguard, derision, laugh at, guy, rib, jest at, make fun, deprecating, sardonic, more...

Opposite:
praising, complimenting, applauding, admiring

Types:
irony, sarcasm, mockery, derision, parody, satire, more...

Adjectives:
constant, public, such, natured, private, self



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