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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

There is plenty of ludicrousness in “Tow” to love and deride alike.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

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

The world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” has had a live-action treatment before — M. Night Shyamalan’s film adaptation in 2010 that many fans deride.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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

And in an X post widely derided for "showing off" her dedication to work, she wrote in July she has been chronically sleeping just "zero to three hours" as prime minister.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Disney dressed the Angels in uniforms derided by one player as “pinstripe pajamas,” put cheerleaders on the dugout roof, and installed a loud “countdown to first pitch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Now, sociology, long derided by many academics in humanities and the “harder” social sciences for its perceived squishiness, is being criticized from within.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

The greenwitches derided the philosophers as joyless old men afraid of magic, and the philosophers, not surprisingly, protested that they found much joy in the real world.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

Mr Johnson had made separate comments deriding human rights lawyers in his October 2020 party conference speech, but did not refer to Duncan Lewis or immigration cases.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

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