The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ridiculed;p. pr. &
vb. n. Ridiculing.]
To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule
toward or respecting.
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I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
--Goldsmith.
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Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize;
lampoon. See Deride.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "ridiculing":
abusive, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, bitchy,
blackening, blameful, booing, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling,
catty, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous,
contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative,
deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disparaging,
disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering,
flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, impudent, insolent,
invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental,
kidding, leering, libelous, minimizing, mocking, objurgatory,
panning, pejorative, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing,
rallying, razzing, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, roasting,
scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting,
smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering,
sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying,
vituperative