Others said the defendants were so popular that to discuss the case was to invite ridicule.

He was the sort that invited ridicule, doomed always to be a victim.

But words created by bureaucrats to raise their "principals" a cut above the ordinary folk are unnecessary and, worse, invite ridicule.

To presume to speak, as novelists once blithely did, for a nation, a city or, especially, a generation is to invite protest and ridicule.

He had lost interest in romantic affairs and did not want to invite further ridicule.

The relationship concerns Glynn and invites ridicule from the inmates.

To suggest that we be allowed to park it curbside outside our building would be to invite ridicule.

Awarding him the Liberal endorsement would invite ridicule if it happened anywhere else.

So they walked away without signing a hollow trade agreement that invited ridicule.

It invites ridicule from visitors with less imagination than is required of a minister in a make-believe cabinet.