deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
is deriding
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present progressiveof deride (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Bundy’s lawyer is deriding the effort as misplaced.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2016
One page later she is deriding this caviar and Champagne celebration as “our petit bourgeois feast” and saying that “we wanted to live the living life,” whatever that is.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2010
