deride
Example Sentences
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After Martin Scorsese famously derided superhero movies as “theme parks” and “not cinema,” James Cameron is doubling down on his somewhat different approach.
Cameron has always been derided for his dialogue, but there’s no denying that he writes lines that stick.
From Los Angeles Times
Kenyon’s dig at “uproarious pedantry” nods to James’s intellectual pretensions, which some courtiers derided—even though a learned monarch seems preferable to an ignorant one.
He was derided as a snob when he suggested, in a few statements over the years, that he had to dumb down his work for uncultured audiences.
Often derided for their poor quality, obsession with dancing cats and crassness -- an AI "Shrimp Jesus" became notorious after flooding Facebook -- they also raised fears about the death of creativity.
From Barron's
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