• shaft of ridicule, shaft of satire
• byword, derision, flouting-stock, mockery, scoff, taunt
• to become the taunt of the public
• acrimoniousness, nip, sarcasm
• to chip at, to flout, to jest, to jibe, to mock, to mock at sg
• biting, bland, derisive, derisory, ironic, ironical, mordant, sarky, satirical, scornful
• derisively, ironically, mockingly, scornfully, tauntingly
• derisive, derisory, taunter, taunting
• to flout, to jape, to jest, to jibe, to mock, to quip, to scoff, to sport, to taunt