derided
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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
It’s been derided as unwieldy and ugly and unable to match other pickups in basic functionality.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
Even the once derided, now celebrated Brutalist Barbican included a plethora of glass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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
