| While widely ridiculed, if we put normative considerations aside, she's largely right. |
| Irish football is traditionally ridiculed but it was the side representing Scotland which was lightweight and jerry-built. |
| Her idea for a television series based on the same idea was roundly ridiculed by TV executives. |
| 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. |
| The new rules were widely ridiculed, and this reporter was among the harshest critics. |
