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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

Today many on the right still deride the Carter years but as the decades passed, his humanitarian efforts and simple lifestyle began to shape a new legacy for many Americans.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024

Those protesters deride the project as “Cop City.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 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

Schäfer, though a less pronounced partisan, derides Macaulay for thinking that human happiness concerns political science: "Das Wesen des Staates ist die Macht, und die Politik die Kunst ihn zu erhalten."

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Three Lions, the song written by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds for Euro 96, has long been derided outside of England for its supposed arrogance.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

If he has been derided for behaving like the most important person in the room, it’s because most of the time, he was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Once derided by the revolutionary government as “Yankee imperialism,” jazz music became a staple of Sandoval’s daily diet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

“Yes, I understand,” Ackers said sulkily, as if his deep schooling in police matters had been derided.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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