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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

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

Redstone went on to publicly deride McMahon’s handling of the situation, telling a crowd at New York’s Advertising Week that she would’ve done things differently.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 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

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

From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

He abhors the self-suppression of asceticism; he derides chastity, humility, mortification—every virtue which we are accustomed to associate with the Christian faith.

From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa

The vote was widely derided by democracy monitors abroad, but China supports it as recreating a semblance of normality, analysts say.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 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

These three-minute pauses, which occur midway through each half, have been derided around the globe as commercial land grabs that cater to sponsors, break up momentum, and violate the spirit of soccer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Critics and sceptics derided the DUP leader as issuing a hollow warning, but he followed through on the threat six months later.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The old woman throwing stones at crows who cawed and derided her was his old woman—and they his crows.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

He was on “Larry King Live” two months later, deriding his detractors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

That is exactly what happened this week in an Irish podcast involving former international Andrew Trimble and Hollywood actor Jamie Dornan, with the pair deriding Welsh rugby.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

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