deride
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It has always been popular, and continues to be popular, to make fun of lawyers, to deride lawyers, to denigrate lawyers, and I get that we deserve a lot of what we get.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
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
To silo or deride the mission of Alanis is to file it away as “female complaint.”
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
Fans have collections numbering in the hundreds, while critics deride them as kitsch.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
Or would she, with the inherent ungenerosity of a low nature, spurn and deride the victim?
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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