Subject to laughter or ridicule.

synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast.

Roget 856: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; snigger; laugh in one's sleeve; tease [ridicule lightly], badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze [U.S.]; tehee^†; fleer^†; show up.    play upon, play tricks upon; fool to the top of one's bent; laugh at, grin at, smile at; poke fun at.    satirize, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty.    turn into ridicule; make merry with; make fun of, make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of^†; rally; scoff etc. (disrespect) 929.    raise a laugh etc. (amuse) 840; play the fool, make a fool of oneself.    ... show more

Roget 929: hold in disrespect etc. (despise) 930; misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful etc. adj., be discourteous etc. 895; treat with disrespect etc. n.; set down, put down, browbeat.    dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage.    speak slightingly of; disparage etc. (dispraise) 932; vilipend^†, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather.    have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle^†, gleek^†, gird, flout, fleer^†; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque etc. 856; laugh to scorn etc. (contempt) 930; smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of^†; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.    ... show more

Roget 930: despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by etc. (neglect) 460.    look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate etc. 483; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at etc. (unimportance) 643; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas [Fr.]; laugh at etc. (be disrespectful) 929.    point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at.    turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds etc. (repudiate) 610; send away with a flea in the ear.    ... show more

Dutch: bespotten, ridiculiseren