derides

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.

But Mr. Go derides the notion, using a World War II analogy.

Reeves has said for years that he opposes Medicaid expansion because he does not want to add more people to a government program that he derides as “welfare.”

Trump derides his annual financial statements, saying that he never felt they would be taken seriously.