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

That speech – delivered en route to the infamous White House hand-holding trip – was intended partly to distance May from Trump, playing up the role of multilateral institutions that he had derided.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 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

At his news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Tillerson expressed bafflement at the ways of the capital, in particular when pressed over reports he had derided Mr. Trump as a “moron.”

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 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