object of ridicule
collocation in Englishmeaningsofobjectandridicule
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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ridicule
noun[U]
uk/ˈrɪd.ɪ.kjuːl/us/ˈrɪd.ə.kjuːl/
unkind words or actions that make someone or something ...
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(Definition ofobjectandridiculefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofobject of ridicule
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For the most part, however, the learned woman was anobjectofridicule, at best useless and at worst a renegade who had deserted her rightful duties.
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Surely the new, modest condition which has been proposed is essential if the whole release scheme is not to become theobjectofridicule.
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It became anobjectofridiculeand loathing on the part of the workers.
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The whole institution is now anobjectofridicule, rather than of respect.
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It is anobjectofridicule.
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As a boy, he is considered unattractive, withdrawn, and anobjectofridiculeby his classmates.
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This made him theobjectofridiculeamong his much wealthier schoolmates.
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Unfortunately, this issue pulls a 180 and makes this villainous mastermind anobjectofridiculerather than fear.
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She, like her son, was anobjectofridiculeto some distress, being only four feet (1.2m) high.
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Budworth thought this might make him anobjectofridiculein the school.
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Overall they ranked the advertisements that used stereotypes which portrayed older people as objects of ridicule, out of touch and unattractive as most offensive.
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Despite his power, he is anobjectofridiculeamong most of his subordinates due to his appearance, mannerisms, and seeming disregard for lives and laws.
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Four depicted older people as objects of ridicule or the brunt of a joke, and two portrayed them as being out of touch.
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Robinson et al. (2003) found that older people were most offended by advertisements that portrayed them as being out of touch, unattractive and objects of ridicule.
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These clanking ghosts being hoisted about the stage became objects of ridicule as they became clichd stage elements.
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For all these reasons they frequently became objects of ridicule.
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It objected to the film's portrayal of stammerers as objects of ridicule, on the grounds that this promoted discrimination and the teasing and bullying of people who stammer.
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