ridicule

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

嘲笑 / あざけり、嘲弄 / 笑いもの、笑いの的 / ばかにされる状態や性質、滑稽さ

Despite the ridicule he faced, he continued to pursue his unconventional ideas.

嘲笑を受けても、彼は型破りな考えを追求し続けた。

Sense（1）

derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour

Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.

Sense（2）

An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.

[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

Sense（3）

The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice

ridicules

（ plural ）