| It is a noble and powerful impulse, one not casually to be ridiculed or dismissed. |
| Seneca ridiculed a wealthy man because he kept a handsome slave who was dressed like a woman when he waited at table. |
| No other profession has been so acidly ridiculed and at the same time so hotly envied as the legal profession. |
| Irish football is traditionally ridiculed but it was the side representing Scotland which was lightweight and jerry-built. |
| McCann, of course, was ridiculed by the media, who refused to accept he might have a case. |
| The U.S. Air Force ridiculed the idea that electromagnetic radiation could cause illness. |
