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deride

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The mimicking of such an elite status, both celebrated and derided as “tacticool,” has spread globally, starting on battlefields but stretching now to blockbuster films, video games and even diaper bags.

Standardized testing has long been derided as an imperfect way to measure a school’s performance.

The trips were also derided by some as an example of extreme wealth in the hands of billionaires.

He’s come a long way from the player many derided as an empty-stats guy earlier in his career.

I was always surprised by how many of the LGBTQ community derided his work, despite the huge contribution he was making to advancing our rights.

Still, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to deride affirmative action from his position of lived experience.

Islamist rebels deride the SNC as a puppet of Western and Gulf powers and say it is not representative of rebel fighters.

Jerry may deride liberals Zionists as ethnic chauvinists or fantasists enthralled to an illusory peace process.

I am angry with all those in France who jumped at the occasion to deride the American justice system, and America in general.

Sizemore gets riled up when people deride Pinsky in any way.

This they find too much trouble, and so deride the idea of being polite and call it deceitfulness.

Sensible people deride, and with reason, an absolute pyrrhonism, and even consider it impossible.

Others were derided by their contemporaries, as we deride the made-to-order coat of arms of some nineteenth century upstart.

Yet these very men endeavour to deride, and affect to despise, those whom they call the godless.

We deride these tales, and yet think, that because we laugh at a hundred such we shall be pardoned for believing one.

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On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deride, such as: disdain, disparage, mock, ridicule, scoff, and scorn.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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