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• Public health officials derided the X-MPLE strain as a "scariant" last night.From the entry scariant
• Critics have derided the works of Walter Scott as tushery.From the entry tushery
• Once derided as a nationalist conspiracy theory, collusion is by now an undeniable fact.2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the…. From the entry collusion
• Though much derided since, Avatar was a great cinematic event, a genuine wow.2022 December 8, Michael Joyce, “Film reviews: Avatar: Way of Water, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Bardo”, in Ham & High, archived from the…. From the entry Avatard
• His machine-made storiettes, though he hated them and derided them, were successful.2019, Jack London, Martin Eden. From the entry storiette
• Derided by some, artists such as Future and Migos have been wildly successful mumble rap artists.2018, Nick J. Sciullo, Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture, page 40. From the entry mumble rap
• Fortune-tellers were derided as swindlers, their so-called services little better than a form of larceny.2015, A Piper, “Women's work: The professionalisation and policing of fortune-telling in Australia”, in Labour History: A Journal of…. From the entry cold read
• Dwight Eisenhower was roundly derided by the liberal intelligentsia as a Mr.2001 June 21, Richard Stengel, “Why George Bush is the Brer Rabbit of American Politics”, in Time. From the entry dim bulb
• One can deride the playful, game-like character of cybernavigation, the illusion of the virtual world.2000, Rem Koolhaas, et al: Mutations. From the entry cybernavigation
• There is nothing more derided than the raptures of a young affection.1906, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, The Key of the Blue Closet, page 201. From the entry derided
• Toward the end of the masterly “Negro With a Hat” (as the Napoleonically haberdashed Garvey was derided by W.2008 April 20, Paul Devlin, “Black Star”, in New York Times. From the entry haberdashed
• This is exactly the reason it is derided by the Green Berets and their like in other totalitarian societies or subsocieties.1982 May 31, Niccolo Tucci, “'THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF COURAGE NEEDS A REDIFINITION'; I was made livid with anger when I read in the newspaper…. From the entry subsociety
• Like the messenger, they commented upon the action in a Manichean dialogue: one cheering on Joan of Arc, the other deriding her.2013, Lucie Kayas, Christopher Brent Murray, “Olivier Messiaen and Portique pour une fille de France”, in Christopher Dingle, Robert…. From the entry coryphée
• Among the technologies bioconservatives frequently deride are genetic modification of both plants and animals, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, all forms of cloning and radical life extension.2011, Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies, page 195. From the entry bioconservative
• Senators, derided by the likes of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and bond guru Bill Gross, and lampooned by late-night talk show hosts.2003 September 15, Jeremy Kahn, “The Man Who Would Have Us Bet On Terrorism—Not To Mention Discard Democracy And Cryogenically Freeze Our…. From the entry viewquake
• So, when Afrocentrists use “middle class” and other such labels to deride multiculturalists and other blacks in the system, we should wonder what they mean.1999, Michèle Lamont, The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, page 241. From the entry Afrocentrist
• For decades, the Indian nuclear energy establishment has derided and discounted any criticism of the risky working of nearly all its reactors.1995, “Nucleocracy's nonsense”, in DownToEarth. From the entry nucleocracy
• The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm.1985, John P. Conrad, “Charting a Course for Imprisonment Policy,”, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science…. From the entry yardbird
• Tate to deride people who do not own luxury cars — “What color is your Bugatti?” — became widespread, said Charlotte Carson, a history and civics teacher.2023 February 19, Emma Bubola, Isabella Kwai, “‘Brainwashing a Generation’: British Schools Combat Andrew Tate’s Views”, in The New York…. From the entry what color is your Bugatti
• But the $3.5 billion ignition facility, derided by some critics as taxpayer-financed science fiction, is running into new challenges that may further delay and perhaps scuttle its goal.2011 June 24, John Upton, “Fusion Experiment Faces New Hurdles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry scuttle
• Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.2009 October 24, Vanessa Thorpe, “New exhibition in Berlin brings forgotten Soviet art back to reality”, in The Observer. From the entry socialist realism
• Much derided by Macintoshers and Amiga-heads, but envied by the same because of the numbers and market presence, thanks to the cheap iron and the corporate embrace.1992 October 10, Gess Shankar, “IBM, Microsoft, and OS/2 -- a history.”, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry Macintosher
• The essence of Mies's architectural philosophy is in his famous and sometimes derided phrase, "Less is more." This means, he says, having "the greatest effect with the least means."1954 June 14, “‘Less Is More’”, in Time. From the entry less is more
• Moreover, the legacy of anti-Asian racism has meant that even relatively modest efforts on foreign policy have been, as Paul Watanabe notes, "more discouraged than encouraged, more derided than applauded."2016, Ronald H. Bayor, The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity, page 388. From the entry derided
• Also, it's right-sized in terms of its overall dimensions, especially in contrast with its larger brother, the previously and side-handedly derided X3, which is based on the new, larger 3-Series.2013 April 21, Brett Berk, “Reviewing, Relenting, and Recommending a Crossover”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry side-handedly
• His culminating vision is a pseudoenlightenment, contaminated by his unaltered egoism: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity" (35; emphasis mine).1991, Thomas Jackson Rice, “The Geometry of Meaning in Dubliners: A Euclidian Approach”, in Style, volume 25, number 1, DeKalb, I.L.…. From the entry pseudoenlightenment

Meaning of deride

1. verb To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.
2. verb To laugh in a harshly mocking manner.

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How do you use deride in a sentence?

Deride is used as a verb. For example: “Public health officials derided the X-MPLE strain as a "scariant" last night.”

What is a short sentence with deride?

“Critics have derided the works of Walter Scott as tushery.”

What does deride mean?

Deride means to laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.