RIDICULE
Scorn Sarcasm
He has the art of saying nothing with immense seriousness
He needs to be wooed back to consciousness by soft music
Now comes the cruel pricking of the bubble
Laughed out of court
He was not taken very seriously
He is admirable in small doses
A little thin-blooded
The last expression of boredom
A thin veneer of truth
Rather the projection of his own imagination than a historical reality
In the throes of another dream
Note how thin the argument is
Splendidly ineffective
A position suited to his powers
He has the vice of stupidity
My tears refuse to flow
Damned with faint praise
He sneered at proprieties
His pump needs priming
Of course there are certain to be wiseacres to say that——
It has only one defect——it is not true
He takes himself too seriously
He lifted up his raucous voice against——
It would be entertaining to hear what——
His sagacity is no more to be admired than his modesty
I have tried to read him without skipping
Wonderful to relate
Growing beautifully less
Not worth the powder to shoot him
A trifle dull
He devotes himself to leisure with much assiduity
He is never troubled with a serious thought
The slightest modicum of common sense would teach that——
One half humbug and the other half hypocrisy
Very material tastes and ambitions
Pretty playthings
Fanciful pipe-dreaming
There is no activity within his cerebral cavity
A toy avalanche
He watched the proceeding from the seat of the scornful
One or two notches short of perfection
Confess you have dreamed this
After the wont of his kind
He is romancing
Possible but still improbable
Too sanguine
Too eager
Small talk
Sharp ridicule