ridicule -- (language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate)
derision, ridicule -- (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)
Overview of verb ridicule
The verb ridicule has 1 sense
ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun -- (subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday")
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