Ridiculed is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ridiculed meaning
simple past and past participle of ridicule
Using Ridiculed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of ridicule
- In the example corpus, ridiculed often appears in combinations such as: and ridiculed, ridiculed the, ridiculed by.
Context around Ridiculed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ridiculed
- In this selection, "ridiculed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, host, consistently, garraway, others, once and prince stand out and add context to how "ridiculed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and also ridiculed relentless media and and being ridiculed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ridiculed" sits close to words such as administering, causal and crooked, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ridiculed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s only going to get you ridiculed on the internet. (11 words)
Mr. DeSantis is now regularly ridiculed by his onetime ally, Mr. Trump. (12 words)
After all, their nihilism was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others. (14 words)
Moreover, in (1934), which was performed at a London theatre and was one of the first produced plays to include Eliot’s work, he wrote a critical scene that parodied and ridiculed the antisemitic ideology of the Nazi Fascists. (39 words)
Furthermore, as reported by the New York Post, critics have consistently ridiculed the vice president for her perceived lack of eloquence in speeches and her tendency to repeatedly define her points during her tenure in office. (36 words)
Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar on Saturday slammed the “publicity” around the Ayodhya visit of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and also ridiculed relentless media updates on the latter’s programme there. (33 words)
How many professional athletes can say the same, and mean it, and not be ridiculed as a fake or a phony? (21 words)
What safeguards could have been but in place to prevent a future outbreak had we not censored and ridiculed those investigating alternative explanations? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
After all, their nihilism was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others.
A judge has “emphatically” rejected accusations emailed into the court by Irish teacher Enoch Burke, which suggested he was “mocked” and “ridiculed” in the court earlier in the week.
And it hasn’t always been easy: “I went through all the trauma, standing for election and being ridiculed.
As one often heralded (or ridiculed) as a “creative type,” I’ve always championed change.
Fox apologized, and Carlson - who until April was their top-rated host - ridiculed the network for their apology.
Furthermore, as reported by the New York Post, critics have consistently ridiculed the vice president for her perceived lack of eloquence in speeches and her tendency to repeatedly define her points during her tenure in office.
Giorgia Meloni's government has been ridiculed for the claim that the a surge in migrants crossing the Mediterranean is part of a "hybrid warfare" waged by using Wagner Group mercenaries.
How many professional athletes can say the same, and mean it, and not be ridiculed as a fake or a phony?
Indeed, we have the independent testimony of the Greek writers of that period, that one of the things they ridiculed in Judaism was Shabbat.
In episode five of the series, the lead, Jane Facciano, sings "The Boom," a song about her fears of being out of the election and being ridiculed once again.
It’s only going to get you ridiculed on the internet.
Kate Garraway ridiculed Prince Harry's pettiness this morning as she expressed disbelief he used his memoir to grind axes over the size of his childhood bedroom.
Moreover, in (1934), which was performed at a London theatre and was one of the first produced plays to include Eliot’s work, he wrote a critical scene that parodied and ridiculed the antisemitic ideology of the Nazi Fascists.
Mr. DeSantis is now regularly ridiculed by his onetime ally, Mr. Trump.
Mr DeSantis’s seemingly over-the-top reaction in the viral clip saw him widely ridiculed online.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar on Saturday slammed the “publicity” around the Ayodhya visit of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and also ridiculed relentless media updates on the latter’s programme there.
Nollywood actress Georgina Onuoha has ridiculed former Deputy Senate President and his wife following their detention in the United Kingdom.
She was ridiculed for it, but unlike the other two candidates she was calling for a fairly radical change in how the party wins Scottish independence.
Travis Tritt is being ridiculed on social media over a comment about Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
What safeguards could have been but in place to prevent a future outbreak had we not censored and ridiculed those investigating alternative explanations?
Common combinations with ridiculed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and ridiculed 30×
- ridiculed the 25×
- ridiculed by 23×
- ridiculed for 18×
- was ridiculed 18×
- been ridiculed 14×
- being ridiculed 13×
- ridiculed and 13×
- he ridiculed 10×
- be ridiculed 9×