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Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.

Derision :: Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule..

Scoff :: Scoff (n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision..

Mocking :: Mocking (a.) Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive..

Scoff :: Scoff (v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.

Pooh-pooh :: Pooh-pooh (v. t.) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!.

Mockingly :: Mockingly (adv.) By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

Irrision :: Irrision (n.) The act of laughing at another; derision.

Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation..

Ludificatory :: Ludificatory (a.) Making sport; tending to excite derision.

Whoop :: Whoop (v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

Laugh :: Laugh (v. i.) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter..

Mockery :: Mockery (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.

Jeer :: Jeer (v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.

Scorn :: Scorn (n.) An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision..

Scorn :: Scorn (v. i.) To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully..

Laughter :: Laughter (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i..

Sport :: Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

Hissing :: Hissing (n.) The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

Scoff :: Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach..

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