Definition

1. Verb:
   • To ridicule: To mock or make fun of someone or something in a contemptuous or dismissive manner, often to expose faults or foolishness.
   • To deride: To express scornful, disrespectful, or contemptuous laughter or criticism towards a person, idea, or institution.
   • To scoff at: To show contempt by mocking or expressing derision.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ta thường chế giễu ý tưởng của đồng nghiệp. (He often ridicules his colleagues' ideas.)
  • Không nên chế giễu người khác vì hoàn cảnh của họ. (One should not deride others for their circumstances.)
  • Bài báo đó chế giễu các chính sách mới. (That article scoffs at the new policies.)

Advanced Usage

• The verb is often used in formal or literary contexts to describe a form of social or political criticism through mockery.
• It can imply a deliberate act intended to belittle or shame the target.

Variants and Related Words

• Sự chế giễu (n): Ridicule, derision.

  • Sự chế giễu của anh ấy thật độc ác. (His ridicule was cruel.)

• Giễu cợt (v): To jest, to joke (often lighter than "chế giễu," but can overlap in meaning).

  • Anh ấy chỉ đang giễu cợt, đừng nghiêm trọng hóa. (He is just jesting, don't take it seriously.)

Synonyms

• Mock: To tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
• Taunt: To provoke or challenge someone with insulting remarks.
• Jeer: To make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice.

Related Idioms

• Làm trò chế giễu: To make a laughingstock (of someone/something).

  • Họ cố tình làm trò chế giễu vị diễn giả. (They deliberately made a laughingstock of the speaker.)

• Đối tượng bị chế giễu: The butt of the joke; the target of ridicule.

  • Anh ấy trở thành đối tượng bị chế giễu trong văn phòng. (He became the butt of the joke in the office.)

verb

1. To ridicule
   • ca dao trào phúng b chế giễu những thói hư tật xấu trong xã hội cũ
     satirical folk-songs ridicule bad habits and backward practices of the old society