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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 Jowett, Benjamin