It's almost enough to make you sympathize with a widely mocked class of politician.

I'm sure that approach would have been widely mocked, probably rightly.

The "Saigon" score is called derivative, and its lyrics are widely mocked.

It was one of several unpopular causes; in the 1970s he initiated a widely mocked campaign against pornography.

This claim to simple human feelings was widely mocked.

His slogan "Catch up and overtake America" was widely mocked in jokes.

He was widely mocked in the media of the time, even in left-wing publications.

Hughes was widely mocked for his tears, which were seen as unmanly and un-Australian.

When the Labour leader called in his conference speech for corporate "predators" to be separated from industrial "producers", he was widely mocked.

Lydon was widely mocked as a sell-out for this move.