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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

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

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

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

He also derides their former classmates with gusto: ”It’s funny that no one other than us is successful, isn’t it?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

Paul boasts of his origin and yet derides his boasting, calling it fool's work.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker

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

Reconsider R-Patz: Robert Pattinson was derided for his performance in the Twilight movies, but in recent years, he has drawn comparisons to Brad Pitt.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Some derided these savers for whining about good fortune: “My steak is too juicy and my lobster is too buttery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

Everything was custom engineered—“no hand-me-down magnets, no industrial discards . . . ‘no patch work,’ ” as the Joliots’ emissary Maurice Nahmias had derided the old standards.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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