ridicule (n.)
- airs
- arrogance
- badinage
- banter
- barrack
- brashness
- brazenness
- burlesque
- caricature
- chaff
- cheekiness
- clannishness
- cliquishness
- cockiness
- contempt
- contemptuousness
- contumely
- dare
- denigration
- deprecation
- depreciation
- derision
- despite
- discourtesy
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- disesteem
- dishonor
- disparagement
- dispraise
- disrespect
- exchange
- exclusiveness
- flippancy
- fooling
- freshness
- fun
- gibe
- give-and-take
- guy
- hauteur
- haze
- impertinence
- impudence
- insolence
- insult
- irreverence
- jape
- jeer
- jeering
- jest
- jibe
- jive
- joke
- kid
- lampoon
- lout
- mimic
- mock
- mockery
- mocking
- pan
- parody
- persiflage
- pillory
- pleasantry
- pun
- quip
- quiz
- rag
- raillery
- rally
- rallying
- razz
- razzing
- rib
- ribbing
- ride
- roast
- rudeness
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- sneer
- snobbishness
- snootiness
- sparkle
- sport
- superciliousness
- taunt
- taunting
- tease
- travesty
- twit
- wisecrack
ridicule (v.)
- airs
- banter
- barrack
- burlesque
- caricature
- chaff
- contemn
- dare
- denigrate
- deprecate
- depreciate
- deride
- despise
- disdain
- disesteem
- dishonor
- disparage
- disrespect
- exchange
- flout
- fun
- gibe
- guy
- haze
- insult
- jeer
- jest
- jibe
- jive
- joke
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- lout
- mimic
- mock
- pan
- parody
- pillory
- presume
- pun
- quip
- quiz
- rag
- rally
- razz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- scintillate
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- sneer
- sparkle
- sport
- taunt
- tease
- travesty
- twit
- wisecrack
But touch me, and no minister so sore;
Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the sad burden of some merry song.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
