Thesaurus / derision
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Words of derision have come from random people on social media or the street, but also from the nation’s highest office.
DEMOCRATS LINK ATLANTA MASSACRE TO ANTI-ASIAN RHETORIC DURING PANDEMICCLEVE WOOTSON, MARIANNA SOTOMAYORMARCH 17, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Some of these staffers gave me looks of derision, but slowly complied.
REP. WATSON COLEMAN: I’M 75. I HAD CANCER. I GOT COVID-19 BECAUSE MY GOP COLLEAGUES DISMISS FACTS.BONNIE WATSON COLEMANJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST
So when Republicans start talking about deficits, it should be greeted with derision, contempt and outrage — not over their hypocrisy, but because of what they’re trying to do to the country.
HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD WAGE WAR ON COMING GOP OBSTRUCTIONISMPAUL WALDMANNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
The whole crowd shouted in derision, and Jones, in anger, fired every shot in his revolver before they could stop him.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
Count Romanoff shrugged his shoulders, and a smile of derision and contempt passed over his features.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKING
At those words of his the men interrogating him laughed in derision, declaring it to be a very elegant excuse.
THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICOWILLIAM LE QUEUX
Hence this Christian emblem became the object of scoffing and derision by the persecuting heathen.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
I recalled patches of the bright dreams filling my poor noodle when I was riding to meet her, and I smiled in derision at myself.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTER
“Very sad,” observed Professor Theobald nervously, with a glance at Hadria, as if expecting derision.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRD
Why do personages so celebrated as kings and queens, so important as the generals of armies, become objects of horror or derision?
CATHERINE DE' MEDICIHONORE DE BALZAC
WORDS RELATED TO DERISION
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- flouting
- invective
- irony
- lampooning
- mockery
- mordacity
- mordancy
- put-down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- wisecrack
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.