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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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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
Thou say'st man hates me 'cause I am a spider, Poor man, thou at thy God art a derider; My venom tendeth to my preservation, Thy pleasing follies work out thy damnation.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
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
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
