deride

Example Sentences

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But making them sound like centuries old technology is a way to deride their worth.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025

OK, you get up there, they're going to rap each other off and they're supposed to deride and blast each other.

From Salon • May 18, 2024

But to deride it as such is to ignore all the episode delivered in exchange for putting off a climactic confrontation of samurais.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2024

Those protesters deride the project as “Cop City.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

And with respect to the bodily organs, true philosophy must deride any attempts, to shew that we are not framed exactly in the same manner.

From A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) by Sheridan, Thomas