deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
derider
-
a word derived from
deride.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
Therefore disregarding their entreaties he prayed unto God for the soul of the derider, and went on his way.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
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
And he himself spoke as a man completely disillusioned, a derider and a mocker, whose dominant temper was ironic pity.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
