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1. Language or behaviour intended to mock or humiliate
    
2. The act of deriding or treating with contempt
   - derision

1. Subject to laughter or ridicule
   "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house";
   - roast [informal], guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib [informal], make fun, poke fun

Derived forms: ridiculing, ridicules, ridiculed

Type of: bemock, discourtesy, disrespect, mock, offence [Brit, Cdn], offense [US], offensive activity

Encyclopedia: Ridicule