deride
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But making them sound like centuries old technology is a way to deride their worth.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
Redstone went on to publicly deride McMahon’s handling of the situation, telling a crowd at New York’s Advertising Week that she would’ve done things differently.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2024
Fans have collections numbering in the hundreds, while critics deride them as kitsch.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
But to deride it as such is to ignore all the episode delivered in exchange for putting off a climactic confrontation of samurais.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2024
It is true that he did deride the notion that the decision of the majority is always right.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
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