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But her observation that the adjective “selfy” was coined by a 17th-century Scottish minister and meant to deride self-centeredness comes across as unnecessarily avuncular information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

When the ultimate creation is less interesting than what people like Scott deride as boring textbook material, however, the failure lies with the creator.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 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

This nation ridicules and derides this movement, and spits upon it, as fit only to be cast out and trampled underfoot.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Former Intel CFO Bob Swan was derided as a bean counter and lasted just two years in the CEO spot after taking over for Brian Krzanich in 2019.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Palantir’s Karp has frequently publicly derided the AI labs for using the proprietary data of companies to train their models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

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

North Korea has furiously denied those allegations, deriding them as efforts to "tarnish" its image.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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

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

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