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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He speaks deridingly, but they deserve the name.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
"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
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
Also he had taken Tom's advice, and had had what Jane deridingly called "a teetotal spell," the result of which was a respectable banking account which perfectly astonished him.
From The Girls of St. Olave's by Mabel Mackintosh
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
