Thesaurus / deride
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
It has never flown and critics have long derided it as the Senate Launch System, more jobs program than exploration vehicle.
AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, BILL NELSON FLEW TO SPACE. AS NASA ADMINISTRATOR, HE’LL FACE A HOST OF CHALLENGES.CHRISTIAN DAVENPORTMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST
That contention has been widely derided by energy experts and Democratic officeholders, and even gently rebuked by ERCOT chairman Bill Magness.
TEXAS, THE GO-IT-ALONE STATE, IS RATTLED BY THE FAILURE TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ONWILL ENGLUND, STEVEN MUFSON, DINO GRANDONIFEBRUARY 18, 2021WASHINGTON POST
This they find too much trouble, and so deride the idea of being polite and call it deceitfulness.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
Sensible people deride, and with reason, an absolute pyrrhonism, and even consider it impossible.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
Others were derided by their contemporaries, as we deride the made-to-order coat of arms of some nineteenth century upstart.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTON
Yet these very men endeavour to deride, and affect to despise, those whom they call the godless.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMAN
We deride these tales, and yet think, that because we laugh at a hundred such we shall be pardoned for believing one.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMAN
He would deride Patty for sewing and baking, vowing that they had servants enough now to do the work twice over.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
To deride the demand for decency is to concede that anything but indecency is impracticable.
FROM THE EASY CHAIR, SERIES 2GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
The Spaniards and Italians alone felt disconcerted, and soon began to deride a magnanimity which they could not appreciate.
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, VOL 2J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGN
WORDS RELATED TO DERIDE
- banter
- caricature
- cartoon
- chaff
- deflate
- deride
- expose
- fleer
- gibe
- haze
- humiliate
- jape
- jeer
- jive
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughing-stock
- make fun of
- mimic
- mock
- needle
- pan
- parody
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- raz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- run down
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- send up
- show up
- sneer
- takeoff
- taunt
- travesty
- twit
- unmask
- banter
- caricature
- cartoon
- chaff
- deflate
- deride
- expose
- fleer
- gibe
- haze
- humiliate
- jape
- jeer
- jive
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughing-stock
- make fun of
- mimic
- mock
- needle
- pan
- parody
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- raz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- run down
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- send up
- show up
- sneer
- takeoff
- taunt
- travesty
- twit
- unmask
- banter
- caricature
- cartoon
- chaff
- deflate
- deride
- expose
- fleer
- gibe
- haze
- humiliate
- jape
- jeer
- jive
- jolly
- josh
- kid
- lampoon
- laugh at
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughing-stock
- make fun of
- mimic
- mock
- needle
- pan
- parody
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- pull one's leg
- put down
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- raz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- run down
- satirize
- scoff
- scorn
- send up
- show up
- sneer
- takeoff
- taunt
- travesty
- twit
- unmask
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