deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
deridingly
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a word derived from
deride.
Example Sentences
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"What do you mean?" she cried deridingly, as if there were no such knowledge.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
We are, you see, like Harlequin, and have more need of cash than advice;' and they left me, laughing deridingly at me.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
But when the chancellor most humbly craved pardon, the Landgrave, who was a satirical gentleman, knelt, but laughed deridingly.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
"What you mean by going home?" cried she, somewhat deridingly: "know you not you might sleep here?"
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
She seized the packet, patted the excellent thief on the shoulder, wagged her head deridingly at the delinquent one, and hobbled off to prepare her favorite beverage.
From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
