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deride
/ dɪˈraɪd /
verb
- tr to speak of or treat with contempt, mockery, or ridicule; scoff or jeer at
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Derived Forms
- deˈrider, noun
- deˈridingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- de·rider noun
- de·riding·ly adverb
- over·de·ride verb (used with object) overderided overderiding
- unde·rided adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of deride1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Still, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to deride affirmative action from his position of lived experience.
Islamist rebels deride the SNC as a puppet of Western and Gulf powers and say it is not representative of rebel fighters.
Jerry may deride liberals Zionists as ethnic chauvinists or fantasists enthralled to an illusory peace process.
I am angry with all those in France who jumped at the occasion to deride the American justice system, and America in general.
Sizemore gets riled up when people deride Pinsky in any way.
This they find too much trouble, and so deride the idea of being polite and call it deceitfulness.
Sensible people deride, and with reason, an absolute pyrrhonism, and even consider it impossible.
Others were derided by their contemporaries, as we deride the made-to-order coat of arms of some nineteenth century upstart.
Yet these very men endeavour to deride, and affect to despise, those whom they call the godless.
We deride these tales, and yet think, that because we laugh at a hundred such we shall be pardoned for believing one.
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