Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To laugh at, speak of, or write about dismissively or contemptuously. synonym: ridicule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To laugh at in contempt; turn to ridicule or make sport of; mock; treat with scorn by laughter.
- Synonyms Ridicule, etc. (see
taunt ), banter, rally, jeer, gibe, scout, scoff at, insult.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To harshly
mock ;ridicule .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb treat or speak of with contempt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you strove for it sincerely at any time, no matter how remote, you could never again deride it.
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The fact that someone would see that as something to deride is beyond words
Think Progress » 66. 2006
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Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the
Letter 138 1795
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All the other cable news netword deride John Stewart, but what they don't realize is that he is an incredibly intelligent person that has his finger on the pulse.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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Is it that those faculty members "deride" the story while Huckabee finds it "compelling"?
Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Is it that those faculty members "deride" the story while Huckabee finds it "compelling"?
"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Ann Althouse 2007
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Is it that those faculty members "deride" the story while Huckabee finds it "compelling"?
"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Ann Althouse 2007
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Ruin the economy through unregulated greed, then deride the poor guy who has to clean up the mess.
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While you cheer for one and deride the other watching the show, their minions are walking out of your back door with a wheel barrow full of cash.
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Conservatives often deride Obama over remarks he made at a presser in April of 2009, in which he said that he believes in American exceptionalism "just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
Nonstop idiocy about Obama and `American exceptionalism' Greg Sargent 2011
aykutkaraalioglu commented on the word deride
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July 18, 2012