He now ridicules the folly of those who deny themselves all the luxuries and even the necessaries of life, in order to leave behind a splendid inheritance to their heirs.
He thenridicules the pretensions of these courtly votaries of the Muses, whose vanity is fostered by the interested praise of dependents and sycophants, who are the first to ridicule them behind their backs.
Lucilius complains that this friend, though he knew he had been ill, had never come to see him; and at the same time he ridicules the affected and pedantic style of language then in vogue in the schools of the rhetoricians.
Mucius Albutius, whom Lucilius ridicules for his affected fondness for Greek customs.
Gerlach supposes that Lucilius ridicules the folly of those poets who either write what is unintelligible, or whose effusions are spoiled by the indifference of the actors who personate their characters, in the same way as Horace, ii.
The poet therefore ridicules the creations of the older poets, who have dignified their heroines with every conceivable embellishment, and invested them with the attractions of every virtue that adorns humanity.
Jonson ridicules the use of the word in similar fashion in the Masque of Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists.
Sir Thomas Overbury ridicules it in his Characters, ed.
The bird is a species of plover, and Cunningham says that ‘Selby ridicules the notion of its being more stupid than other birds.
She has made a series of snap-shots of people in the most absurd situations and ridicules them while she is taking the picture.
In fact, in his Ciceroniana, he expressly ridicules what he has seen in Rome of the classical spirit run mad.
He ridicules as a joke not meriting a serious reply the report that Erasmus and his friends had declared there was no need of the theologians and philosophers, but that grammar would suffice.
He of course professes to hold that Condillac's version of Locke is illegitimate, andridicules the famous formula penser c'est sentir.
Macaulay ridicules the Utilitarians for their claim to be the defenders of the true political faith.
He ridiculeswith much sarcasm Weber's overture to 'Oberon.
At the close of 1852 Punch ridicules as absurd the rumour of the betrothal of the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the Princess being only twelve years old.
Punch ridicules the idea of a railway in the Isle of Wight as unnecessary and calculated to spoil the "Garden of England.
This cynical minister of the king ridicules his youthful exploits, and sarcastically assured the hero, that "he has come to a worse matter now, should he dare to pass the space of one night with the fiend.
MORE more reasonably ridicules the extravagance of the estimates.
Columella also ridicules the breeding of these cocks, as a Grecian custom, and prefers the native race to all others.
Martial ridicules a petit-maître, who wished for the arrival of winter and for severe weather in that season, in order that he might exhibit his costly winter dresses.
For it was in his archonship that Eupolis exhibited the comedy Autolycus, in which, in the character of Demostratus, he ridicules the victory of Autolycus.
He ridicules the idea of regarding it as a force that could be utilized, even in the event of war.
He ridicules the idea of German interference in French politics.
The ingenious author of the "Plurality of Worlds" ridicules the Chinese, because, says he, they see a thousand stars fall at once into the sea.
In a word, Boileau ridicules Perrault much more than he justifies Homer.
Xenophanes not only condemns these poets for having ascribed to the Gods discreditable exploits, but even calls in question the existence of the Gods, and ridicules the anthropomorphic conception which pervaded the Hellenic faith.
Lucian, who was present and saw the proceeding, has left an animated description of it, but ridicules it as a piece of silly vanity.
Settle thus ridicules the idea of the protestant, or fanatical plot for seizing the king at Oxford.
More, Sir Thomas, ridicules the imitation of the French, 65.
It is a conventional use supposed to make for beauty which The Rehearsal ridicules in the following scene, for at nearly all crises the Heroic Drama rested on a simile for its strongest effect.
In the last lines of the following heridicules this very use: Re-enter Lesbia Lesbia.
Horace ridicules the cunning of the trained legal intellect in more than one place.
When Juvenal ridicules the senate of Domitian, [25] we may believe that he desired to stimulate to independence the senate of his day; and when he speaks of Trajan, it is in language of enthusiastic praise.
Cato ridicules the meagreness of their information.
While praising others he is ever ready to disparage himself; and he as heartily ridicules his insufficient voice, his meagre person, and his pallid complexion, as any enemy might have done for him.
When his Boston experience was repeated at Salem he took his revenge in the opening chapter of The Scarlet Letter, which ridicules those who received political jobs from the other party.
Shakespeare ridicules the fashion in the character of Holofernes, in Love's Labor's Lost, yet he follows it as slavishly as the rest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridicules" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
