Example Sentences

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The Washington Post reported in February that some Brits were deriding the Pfizer vaccine as “the posh one” as opposed to “the English one.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2021

They complained about the people in town who were deriding them for walking out.

From Washington Post

We used to feel terribly sorry for her, even while we were deriding her for the fool she had made of herself in marrying him.

From A Fool and His Money by McCutcheon, George Barr

Kirkwood's companions were deriding him as a recreant sportsman.

From In Exile and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

She felt as though he were deriding her—as though his words held some hidden irony which she could not understand.

From Brand Blotters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)