deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
derider
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a word derived from
deride.
Example Sentences
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That he was a derider of the papal dignity;—2.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
Although the official head of the Church, with power to appoint its bishops and highest dignitaries, he was secretly a sceptic, if not openly a derider of spiritual things.
From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine
Captain —— was the first man who found it necessary to take the dose, and he had been the loudest derider of the organization.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. by Mark Twain
On the other hand, as a critic and derider of the system which Blackstone had complacently expounded he did excellent service.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
In Abraham's family was a derider I' th' palace of a king will be the spider.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
