derides

With searing yet quiet familiarity, Victor derides the way trauma is handled with callous frigidity.

Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.

He also derides their former classmates with gusto: ”It’s funny that no one other than us is successful, isn’t it?”

In other words, when Trump derides someone or something, or fear-mongers about an imagined threat, he’s basically talking about himself.

He finally changed course late in the race and was actually pretty sharp in front of the so-called corporate media he often derides.