deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
are deriding
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present progressiveof deride.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Men are deriding things around them, of the significance of which they have not the remotest idea.
From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
