deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
have been deriding
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present perfect progressiveof deride.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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While Apple fans have been deriding Windows 95 as the technological equivalent of Apple's 1989 operating system, the criticism sounds shriller and shriller.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phaedrus is afraid that he will lose conceit of Lysias, and that Lysias will be out of conceit with himself, and leave off making speeches, for the politicians have been deriding him.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
