deride

Example Sentences

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But making them sound like centuries old technology is a way to deride their worth.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025

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

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

She did not deride the memory of that afternoon because the spirits of Cardinal Newman and Durward and Felisy had moved among them, but because they hadn't.

From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic