millinery, coxcombry, puppyism. stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery,
demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais
honte, false shame. affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue,
doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of
affectation, precieuse ridicule[Fr], bas bleu[Fr], blue stocking,
poetaster; prig; charlatan &c. (deceiver) 548; petit maitre &c. (fop)
854; flatterer &c. 935; coquette, prude, puritan. V. affect, act a
part, put on; give oneself airs &c. (arrogance) 885; boast &c. 884;
coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact,
overdo. Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic,
stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting,
insincere. not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial;
overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist &c. 577. stiff, starch,
formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish,
puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical,
foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby,
sentimental. Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet].
#856. Ridicule.—N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic
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grin; irrision[obs3]; scoffing &c. (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz|!,
banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing &c. v.;
asteism[obs3].
squib, satire, skit, quip, quib[obs3], grin.
parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie[obs3]; farce &c. (drama)
599;
caricature.
buffoonery &c. (fun) 840; practical joke; horseplay.
scorn, contempt &c. 930.
V. ridicule[transitive], deride, mock, taunt; snigger; laugh in
one's sleeve; tease[ridicule lightly], badinage, banter, rally, chaff,
joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze [U.S.]; tehee[obs3]; fleer[obs3]; show
up.
[i.p.] 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[obs3]; rally; scoff &c. (disrespect)
929.
raise a laugh &c. (amuse) 840; play the fool, make a fool of
oneself.
Adj. derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic,
ironical,
quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic[obs3]; scurrilous &c. (disrespectful)
929.
Adv. in ridicule &c. n.
#857. [Object and cause of ridicule.] Laughingstock.—N.
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laughingstock, jestingstock[obs3], gazingstock[obs3]; butt, game, fair
game; April fool &c. (dupe) 547[obs3].
original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old
monkey,
old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c. (jester) 844;
pantomimist
&c. (actor) 599.
schlemiel.
jest &c. (wit) 842.
Phr. dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt[Lat].