Sentence example with the word 'deride'

deride

banter, despise, feel superior to, hold beneath one, knock, make merry with, presume, rib, set at naught, snigger at

Definition v. treat or speak of with contempt

Last update: September 2, 2015


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He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics.   [Please select]

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It is fashionable these days to deride the very notion of Britishness, but the concept has a meaning and has a date.   [verb]

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The Guardian 's news value was in the headline, ' Experts deride report on crime and moral decline '.   [verb]

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Sappho, who had derided her brother for marrying one beneath him, soon became an enthusiastic admirer of the beautiful widow and rivalled Alcaeus in passionate songs to her praise.   [verb]

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Had a friend hinted at this interpretation of the ambiguous oracle, I should have derided, nay, probably caused him to be punished.   [verb]

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Is it necessary to remind this journal that it has no right to deride a dogmatic philosopher, because it is without a doctrine itself.   [verb]

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That, of course, is commonly known in Graustark, where he is scorned and derided.   [Please select]

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But there was no one there to see or deride their grief.   [Please select]

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The frame thy wayward looks deride Required a God to form.   [Please select]

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