deride
verb (used with object)
to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
will deride
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future tenseof deride.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Emilia, by contrast, is a strikingly modern figure in her cynical assessments of the hypocrisy of a culture that will deride women for sexual behavior that wouldn’t be censured in men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
I know that there are many who will deride the action and say that you are "wasting your vote," but no vote is ever wasted when it is cast for a principle, Jonathan.
From The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo
When this gets wind in the county they will deride me to death.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
Let who will deride us, but let us prepare.
From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
They will deride the cherubim and the seraphim, but they will not risk offending the demon to whom they throw an oblation of the salt they have just spilt on the table.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
