During his mayoral campaign, Mr. Giuliani regularly ridiculed his predecessor, David N. Dinkins, for his reliance on such measures, but now says they are necessary to avoid slicing into the bone.

The message here is not hard to decipher: Mr. Perot has demeaned Mr. Clinton by saying the principle industry in Arkansas is chicken plucking, and the Texas billionaire has regularly ridiculed the President for espousing "voodoo economics."

He regularly ridicules the Occupy movement and stalwartly defends free-market capitalism.

Outwardly, Hinagiku picks on Ichihiko regularly and often ridicules him for being short.

H. L. Mencken regularly ridiculed it.

That book condemned in leering detail the sexual mores of the revolutionary generation of 1968 - the Soixante-Huitards, who, having attained important positions in French society, now have thinner skins than their more regularly ridiculed American counterparts.

Detractors, mainly veteran politicians severely critical of the junta, regularly ridicule the activities of Third Force parties as misguided and naive or even as a front for the military junta.

But The Post regularly ridiculed Mr. Lauder during his campaign this year for the Republican nomination in the New York mayoral race; one front-page headline was "Laughingstock of Vienna," a quotation from a Lauder critic.

Humorist John Hodgman, in a review of comic-strip reprint collections, said the website "regularly ridicules the creaky war horses like Hagar the Horrible and Mary Worth, the opaque woolgathering of Ziggy, the dull crypto-evangelism of B.C.."

Mr. Urban, who now edits Nie, the country's most popular weekly, regularly ridicules the post-Communist Parliament as he mixes investigative scoops with commentary.