Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A start or turn from the point in question, or from plain truth; an evasion; a cavil; a pretense; as, to answer a sound argument by quibbles.
2. Quirks and quibbles have no place in the search after truth.
1. To evade the point in question, or plain truth, by artifice, play upon words, caviling or any conceit; to trifle in argument or discourse.
2. To pun.
1. To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.
1. One who evades plain truth by trifling artifices, play upon words, or cavils.
2. A punster.
Triflingly; evasively.
Ridicule Roget’s Thesaurus §856
N. ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic # grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz|, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt
V. ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, snigger, laugh in one's sleeve, tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast, haze, 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, raise a laugh, play the fool, make a fool of oneself
Adj. derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, hudibrastic, scurrilous
Adv. in ridicule
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