ridiculer

Other forms: ridiculers

Definitions of ridiculer
  1. noun
    a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
    synonyms: ironist, satirist
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    examples:
    Decimus Junius Juvenalis
    Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)
    Francois Rabelais
    author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)
    Jonathan Swift
    an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
    type of:
    farceur, humorist, humourist
    someone who acts, speaks, or writes in an amusing way
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