The phrase "subtle ridicule" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a form of mockery or teasing that is not overt or obvious. It can be used in situations where someone is being ridiculed in a sneaky or indirect way. Example: "His friends often used subtle ridicule to make fun of his fashion sense, but he never realized it until someone pointed it out to him."
More liberal Saudis relished the subtle ridicule of the way such tenets jar with modern life.
Films like "Pandaemonium," in which a visual medium grapples with literary art, often founder in their depiction of creation, but Mr. Temple and Mr. Boyce bring subtle ridicule to Wordsworth's peripatetic dictation to Dorothy, and they ably transmit the hellish torture and triumph of Coleridge's nightmare journeys into creativity.
This pose has been ridiculed endlessly, but there are subtle ways to do it and it's a bonafide classic.
No summary can do justice to Culture and Anarchy, however; it is written with an inward poise, a serene detachment, and an infusion of subtle humour that make it a masterpiece of ridicule as well as a searching analysis of Victorian society.
A tabloid artist, Fuller reveled in the juice and force of melodrama, and he has been dismissed or ridiculed by those who believe art must be subtle.
The threshold can be met if the pimp instills fear of a beating, but also by more subtle intimidation, like spreading a secret that might subject the person to ridicule, or doing anything "calculated to harm" the health, safety or immigration status of the prostitute.
The threshold can be met if the pimp instills fear of a beating, but also by more subtle intimidation, like spreading a secret that might subject a prostitute to ridicule, or doing anything "calculated to harm" the person's health, safety or immigration status.
He ridiculed the judge's use of "probably" and called his report an example of "subtle British humour".
Ridicule as argumentative accelerant.
