• to set up ridiculous pretensions
• neither more nor less than ridiculous
• foolishly, laughably, ludicrously, preposterously
• preposterousness, ridiculousness
• to flout, to hold up to ridicule, to laugh down, to stultify, to travesty
• have the laugh of sy, to affix ridicule to a person, to get the laugh of sy, to make a laughing-stock of sy
• to make an ass of oneself, to make an exhibition of oneself