ridiculer

Synonyms:

ironist, satirist

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:

humorist, humourist

someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way