I have not heard a good word for the town in ten years, but it is always being denounced, and cursed, and Ridiculed.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
All his bravery had now deserted him; he was in a strange city where men of his province were despised and Ridiculed.
"The Making of an Apostle"
R. J. Campbell
He Ridiculed that authority very keenly in the 'Recipe to make an Epic Poem' which first appeared in the Guardian, while he was at work upon his own translation.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen