words, actions, or behavior making someone seem laughable and ridiculous
(Note: Ridiculing isn't necessarily teasing. Teasing implies saying or doing something unkind or ridiculing towards another, but that was done just out of silliness, which is why it's common to say, "I was only teasing. I was just joking")
Will Smith constantly ridiculed Carlton on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
"You could make George Bush look young," I ridiculed my wife before she threw my pillow and blanket on the couch.
After Henry ridiculed me today at school, all the students bursted in laughter.
ridicule may or may not be done in a teasing manner. Some ridicule hurts
John is usually just teasing when he ridicules me so I never make anything of it.
A portmanteau of ridiculous and molecule, Meaning a connection of separate but interconnected pseudo scientific beliefs drawing ridiculous conclusions.
Ridicule Effect occurs when a person's statement or belief system is so outlandish or bizarre that others make fun of it and the speaker, thereby diminishing the speaker's credibility and intellectual ability, usually permanently.
Defined in book "Just Kidding" by Louis Franzini, published by Rowman & Littlefield (2012).
Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle made innumerable "misstatements" which ultimately evaporated his legitimacy and future officeholding, due to the Ridicule Effect. For example, "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."