deride

Example Sentences

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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

But to deride it as such is to ignore all the episode delivered in exchange for putting off a climactic confrontation of samurais.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 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

Inevitably there grew up a generation of lads who began to deride Yasi, and said that they would never join the society.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill