deride
Example Sentences
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He was derided as a snob when he suggested, in a few statements over the years, that he had to dumb down his work for uncultured audiences.
Often derided for their poor quality, obsession with dancing cats and crassness -- an AI "Shrimp Jesus" became notorious after flooding Facebook -- they also raised fears about the death of creativity.
From Barron's
When Universal Pictures split its musical adaptation of "Wicked" into two films, the move was derided by some critics as a cynical -- if spectacularly successful -- money grab.
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For their big solos the principals tend to plant themselves front and center to sing—a style derided in opera as “park-and-bark.”
Before Tesla voters ratified Elon Musk’s trillion dollar pay package, the Tesla CEO derided proxy advisors as “corporate terrorists.”
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