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
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
Inevitably there grew up a generation of lads who began to deride Yasi, and said that they would never join the society.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
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