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Emilia, by contrast, is a strikingly modern figure in her cynical assessments of the hypocrisy of a culture that will deride women for sexual behavior that wouldn’t be censured in men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

There is plenty of ludicrousness in “Tow” to love and deride alike.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 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

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

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

But Mr. Go derides the notion, using a World War II analogy.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

Let them stand confessed The puppets that they are—too weak to give The good they feign to love, since Fate, too strong For them as us, beyond their painted sky, Sits and derides them, too.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

She lives in the deprived East Marsh area of Grimsby, a neighbourhood she says is often derided as a place of crime and unemployment.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Many on Wall Street have long derided the retail crowd as “dumb money” — a reputation largely earned during the dot-com bubble, and reinforced during the 2021 meme-stock frenzy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

They are often derided for their cost, and customers declare they will wait till the paperback comes out.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

For a generation sometimes derided for its sense of privilege, there’s a refreshing simplicity and wholesomeness to these recipes built for social media’s culture of imitation and iteration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Galton may have derided the “microscope” of experimental geneticists, but the tool was far more powerful than Galton had presumed, for it could penetrate the outer shell of heredity into the mechanism itself.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

What’s worse is that “Death of a Unicorn” hit theaters close to the same time the far superior satire “Common Side Effects” finished its first season, deriding the same topic.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

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