LekhoriLekhoriDerision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
ridiculous
late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.
The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”). The noun is either from French, noun use of...
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A small woman's handbag; a reticule.
[…] while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady’s replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]