ridicule

To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.

Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.

When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school, His mind would turn unto the waters. Always the focus of adolescent ridicule, He has no time for farmer's daughters. Alienated from the clique society, A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.

An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.

[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.

The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice

More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.

ridiculous

late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.