This is ridiculed as a gross vulgarism; and it is indeed obsolete except among common people; but is strictly correct, and if persons deride the use of the word, it proves at least that they do not understand its meaning.
Of all these, sin or sen, which is so much ridiculedas vulgar, comes nearest to the original seen.
This was one of those many things which, having been habitually ridiculed by theorists, are at once established by those who make the experiment.
Even in the American Civil War, where the Federals certainly derived some advantage from their use, balloons were criticized and ridiculed more than they were feared.
Were we to hear our character as a people ridiculedwith indifference?
More than one ridiculed the notion so prevalent, that Wine must seal the marriage-bands.
But tell me, Eudoxia, if by chance they had ridiculed you because you love me, because you listen to me, because you do all that I desire, would that have given you pain?
They, on their side, often ridiculed him for being too orderly, too neat, and too elegant.
The young men who had ridiculed her, now bowed with a disconcerted air, for M.
Every one looked at her, but this was what she wished; every one ridiculed her without her being aware of it, but in secret all the young girls began to imitate her.
Some ill-bred young men followed her, ridiculed her, and made a thousand offensive remarks, which reached her ears.
Aglaïa spent two days very unhappily; she would not have ventured out at all, had not her grandmother absolutely ordered her to do so, so much did she dread to meet any of those persons who had ridiculed her.
They reverted to the teachings of Horace and ridiculed the self-sacrifice of the monk.
He bitterlyridiculed even the holiest and purest aspirations, along with the alleged deceptions of the Jesuits and the quarrels of the theologians.
Tommy was a little confounded at this insinuation, but replied, "that he should not have been so provoked if they had not laughed at his misfortunes, and he thought it very hard to be wetted and ridiculed both.
In his Ciceronian he had ridiculedthose who mistook the form for the spirit of the ancients.
He ridiculed the medical theories of Hippocrates (p.
Chalmers characterized as "most glaring" and "likely to mislead every artisan from the path of his true interests," laughed at and ridiculed the system long after it had proved its usefulness in numerous ways.
David, the father, gave himself out as a believing Jew to his co-religionists, but ridiculed all their observances when he found himself with the Khutars and the Goimes.
I am aware," said he, "that these books have been ridiculed to you by men who are antagonistic to us.
She read the Bible, but her father ridiculed the most sacred passages.
He let himself be ridiculed by men who were far from being his equals, and thereby carried his point; he resembled in these moments some monstrous animal which could not contain itself.
The illustrious lady, so cruelly ridiculed under the name of Octavie by Beranger, had conceived (so it was said) the gravest fears.
His defection gave the signal for a terrific hubbub in the Liberal camp; Lucien was the butt of the Opposition newspapers, and ridiculed unmercifully.
Like Socrates, he ridiculed the absurd but popular notion that the gods could be full of human imperfections, could make war upon each other, could engage in intrigues, and be guilty of base passions.
They were hated by their Jewish countrymen, ridiculed by the ubiquitous and cultured Greeks, and frowned upon by the conquering powers of Rome.
Writers of this kind always have the argument that some things which have been ridiculed at first have been finally established.
He takes no notice of the sentence I have put in italics: nor does he mention my notice of him, unless he means to include me among those by whom he has been "ridiculed and sneered at" or "branded as a brainless heretic.
Having constant access to the pope, they contrived to make him believe that Galileo had ridiculed him in one of the personages of his Dialogues.
Not only did he argue against prayer; he also ridiculed it, and declared that a man would be ashamed to be caught by another in the attitude of prayer.
The bulk of society showed entire indifference to worship, the churches being everywhere deserted; and "atheism was openly avowed, and Christianity ridiculed as the invention of priestcraft.
Bouillier notes (i, 426) that the femmes savantes ridiculed by Molière are Cartesians.
Dickinson and his followers were bent upon sending one more petition to the king, a scheme which was ridiculed almost with anger by the more advanced and resolute party.
The English newspapers tauntingly ridiculed his insignificance and incapacity; de Vergennes could not endure him, and scarcely treated him with civility.
Voltaire, we know, ridiculed the proud English, who with the same scissors cut off the heads of their kings and the tails of their horses.
Nobody, for example, has ridiculedmore happily the absurdities of which we sometimes take him to be a representative.
They ridiculed him as they ridiculed Isaiah; they smote him on the cheek as they smote Jeremiah.
For years the purchase was unpopular, and was ridiculed by the press and in conversation.
When Juvenal did face the small world of Iliamna, it was to be openly ridiculed and insulted by all.
Steller, in his diary, claims to have discovered land on the fifteenth, but was ridiculed by his associates, although it was clearly visible to all in the same place on the following day.
For Nigrinus praised philosophy and the freedom it gives and ridiculed what men in general exalt: wealth, fame, power, honor.
The outraged Arsacomas rushing home told his friends how he and their friendship had been ridiculed and the three as one man planned immediate vengeance.
As soon as it was known by the neighboring clock-makers, they laughed at me, and ridiculed the idea of sending clocks to England where labor was so cheap.
The "condition of Islam" whereby adultery was forbidden is said to have been ridiculed at the time, on the ground that this practice had never been approved.
In the last, he satirized Ben Jonson, with whom he had quarrelled, and who had ridiculed him in The Poetaster.
To this desire of our fond parents we strictly adhered while in Jerusalem, although often ridiculed by drunken wit, and frowned upon by countenances flushed with strong drink.
They laughed to scorn the demand of the Persians, and loudly ridiculed them from the city walls.
But earthly kings and statesmen have ridiculed the idea that His will and His law should control them in their schemes and ambitions.
The Roman soldiers, on the other hand, ridiculed His claim to be a King.
There is none of the minstrel's cant in this work, none of the cheap sensations, the hackneyed wonders such as areridiculed in Sir Thopas.
But though a minstrel's poem it is far from rude, and it is quite free from the ordinary faults of rambling and prosing, such as Chaucer ridiculed in his Geste of Sir Thopas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridiculed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
