What is "ridiculed"

Usage examples of "ridiculed".

No matter how much the elites ridiculed McCarthy, lots of Americans seemed to like him.

President Truman had tried to persuade Eisenhower to run as a Democrat, and Barry Goldwater ridiculed Eisenhower's policies as the "dime store New Deal.

To the contrary, conservatives ridiculed the idea of "containment," preferring the idea of "victory.

They ridiculed him as an idiot for believing the Soviet Union could be toppled.

Democrat, and Barry Goldwater ridiculed Eisenhower's policies as the "

When Janney learned of the decision he proposed that they sail to Jamestown, conscript an army and burn the village unless the Indians returned to work, but Steed ridiculed such folly.

With fury she threw the Plutarch to the ground and ridiculed him as he scrambled to recover it.

But he never ridiculed the northern position and in Letter VIII actually stated it rather better than some of its own apologists.

He was called a nobody, ridiculed for having insufficient means to conduct himself in proper fashion.

In wild burlesque, Pa ridiculed the coronation of the headless would-be king.

GOTO was appalled at the work his father did, at the humiliation of it, at the way late strolling drunks ridiculed him, at the stench.

Most politicians would rather face down the Viet Cong than be ridiculed by Katie Couric.

George Bush (43), with degrees from Yale and Harvard, is ridiculed for his stupidity by Hollywood starlets whose course of study is limited to what they’ve learned from bald sweaty little men on casting couches.

Despite being “hated and despised by everybody, although every day, and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, [Goldstein’s] theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were—in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less.