An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
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To mock; to ridicule.
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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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See Offense.
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Alt. of Offence
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
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To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
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To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
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To comb or card, as wool or flax.
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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
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Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
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The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…
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The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
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A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which hold…
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One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
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To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces wit…
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