deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
had derided
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past perfectof deride.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had derided his former business partner, Rick Gates, for striking a deal with prosecutors that provided him leniency in exchange for testimony against Manafort.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2018
Mr. Bator enjoyed telling friends that Secretary of State Dean Rusk had derided him as “the ambassador from Ulan Bator.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2018
But he did not deny the report on NBC News on Wednesday morning that he had derided Trump as a “moron” in a meeting of White House national security officials and members of the cabinet.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2017
Having agreed to host “The Apprentice,” he set out to appeal to the “bottom-feeders” he had derided, and he found that he excelled at his new craft.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
Everything was custom engineered—“no hand-me-down magnets, no industrial discards . . . ‘no patch work,’ ” as the Joliots’ emissary Maurice Nahmias had derided the old standards.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
