deride

Example Sentences

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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

When the ultimate creation is less interesting than what people like Scott deride as boring textbook material, however, the failure lies with the creator.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 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

Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day, the fixed annual celebration of love and friendship, marked by cute couples, eager elementary school students — and critics who deride its commercialization.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024

In this choice work, with wisdom penned, we find The noblest system to reform mankind, Bold truths confirmed, that bigots have denied, By most perverted, and which some deride.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip