I occasionally feel the need to be an equal opportunities ridiculer. From Wordnik.com. [The Weekend Starts Here] Reference
Within this, to ridicule the existence of a greater mystery says more about the narrow-mindedness of the ridiculer than it does about the intelligence of the ridiculed. From Wordnik.com. [The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended] Reference
Who came off looking worse, the ridiculer or the ridiculed?. From Wordnik.com. [Self Help Daily] Reference
"You a ridiculer of superstitions?" said Danville, turning quickly on him. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
And the way to defeat it lies not in defensive statements that attempt to argue the point raised by the ridiculer. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The intended victim, recognizing a grain of truth in the projector's argument, becomes defensive, which delights the ridiculer. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Page 112 and dwelt upon the benefits, and more especially upon the beauties, of the received code of etiquette in passages of arms, with an ardor, an eloquence, an impressiveness, and, if I may so speak, an affectionateness of manner, which elicited the warmest enthusiasm from his hearers in general, and absolutely staggered even myself, who well knew him to be at heart a ridiculer of those very points for which he contended, and especially to hold the entire fanfaronade of duelling etiquette in the sovereign contempt which it deserves. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
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