deride

Conceptual art is easy to deride as pretentious and obfuscatory or, on the other end of the spectrum, sophomoric and heavy-handed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

M. M. C.’s letter is just one of many that deride Joey’s arrival.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Proudly, he informs the class that the protest that Didion derides led to the establishment of the first ethnic studies department in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Among the low performers are one that he derides as packed with tourists, another "with barking dogs," and a third he says is "quiet but with no one to talk to."

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

The American Mini Pig Association derides the use of terms like “teacup” as misleading and discourages promises of adult pigs under 75 pounds in its code of ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

With searing yet quiet familiarity, Victor derides the way trauma is handled with callous frigidity.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

Ham hears that he is accursed; but inasmuch as the curse does not go into immediate effect, he securely despises and derides the same.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker

And that is exactly what makes Tanden’s transformation into one of the country’s most widely derided Twitter pundits so bizarre.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even the derided half-and-half scarves were doing a roaring trade, until it was noticed the sky blue half read: 'Shamchester City - The Cheats'.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

As it has done in the past, the White House on Tuesday derided Bonta’s lawsuits as misguided.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Now, sociology, long derided by many academics in humanities and the “harder” social sciences for its perceived squishiness, is being criticized from within.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The greenwitches derided the philosophers as joyless old men afraid of magic, and the philosophers, not surprisingly, protested that they found much joy in the real world.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

It was perhaps inevitable that judges would bristle at a government spokeswoman deriding them as hacks.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026

He was popular, but for a long time the critics condescended to him, calling him a lightweight Sunday painter and deriding him for his “matchstick” figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

At the Border Patrol’s takeover of MacArthur Park earlier this month, Newman was there shooting video and deriding the spectacle as “a dystopian episode of ‘The Apprentice.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

The company denied the allegations, deriding them as "the latest in a stream of unevidenced and misleading attempts ... to thwart legitimate competition".

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

How I blessed those stolid, flannelled figures, for in a few minutes his face had settled back into repose, the colour had returned, and he was deriding the Surrey bowling in healthy irritation.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier