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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

Today many on the right still deride the Carter years but as the decades passed, his humanitarian efforts and simple lifestyle began to shape a new legacy for many Americans.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024

Those protesters deride the project as “Cop City.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Film critics deride the dense dramas and documentaries with overly stiff adherence to the historical record—storytelling that’s more didactic than artful, more concerned with detail than drama.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2023

M. M. C.’s letter is just one of many that deride Joey’s arrival.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Proudly, he informs the class that the protest that Didion derides led to the establishment of the first ethnic studies department in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Among the low performers are one that he derides as packed with tourists, another "with barking dogs," and a third he says is "quiet but with no one to talk to."

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

The American Mini Pig Association derides the use of terms like “teacup” as misleading and discourages promises of adult pigs under 75 pounds in its code of ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

With searing yet quiet familiarity, Victor derides the way trauma is handled with callous frigidity.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

Lenin, on the other hand, derides the mere counting of heads.

From The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion by Lucien Wolf

UAW President Shawn Fain derided the unprecedented offer, calling it an effort to avoid the regular collective bargaining process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The vote was widely derided by democracy monitors abroad, but China supports it as recreating a semblance of normality, analysts say.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Many on Wall Street have long derided the retail crowd as “dumb money” — a reputation largely earned during the dot-com bubble, and reinforced during the 2021 meme-stock frenzy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Critics and sceptics derided the DUP leader as issuing a hollow warning, but he followed through on the threat six months later.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The old woman throwing stones at crows who cawed and derided her was his old woman—and they his crows.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

It was perhaps inevitable that judges would bristle at a government spokeswoman deriding them as hacks.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026

He was popular, but for a long time the critics condescended to him, calling him a lightweight Sunday painter and deriding him for his “matchstick” figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

At the Border Patrol’s takeover of MacArthur Park earlier this month, Newman was there shooting video and deriding the spectacle as “a dystopian episode of ‘The Apprentice.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

What’s worse is that “Death of a Unicorn” hit theaters close to the same time the far superior satire “Common Side Effects” finished its first season, deriding the same topic.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

How I blessed those stolid, flannelled figures, for in a few minutes his face had settled back into repose, the colour had returned, and he was deriding the Surrey bowling in healthy irritation.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier