derision
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Derision and mockery rained from the Twitterverse: “The Death Star had no design flaws. Period.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2017
Derision was its unifying quality with one notable exception.
From Golf Digest • Jun. 21, 2010
Mr. Evra, the French captain, was one of the first players to bash the Great Horn of Derision, greviously complaining that his teammates were having trouble sleeping at night because of the vuvu.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2010
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic � Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision."
From Time Magazine Archive
Derision was one of our D words that nobody could spell.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing derision
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