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is deriding
  • present progressive of deride (3rd person singular).

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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